This is version 12.1-systemd of the Linux From Scratch book, dated March 1st, 2024. 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:

2024-03-01

[bdubbs] - LFS-12.1 released.

2024-02-14

[bdubbs] - Update to meson-1.3.2. Fixes #5442.

2024-02-12

[bdubbs] - Update to shadow-4.14.5. Fixes #5437.

[bdubbs] - Update to setuptools-69.1.0 (Python module). Fixes #5439.

[bdubbs] - Update to python-3.12.2. Fixes #5434.

[bdubbs] - Update to pkgconf-2.1.1. Fixes #5432.

[bdubbs] - Update to MarkupSafe-2.1.5 (Python module). Fixes #5431.

[bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-6.06. Fixes #5438.

[bdubbs] - Update to expat-2.6.0. Fixes #5435.

[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.7.4. Fixes #5433.

2024-02-10

[xry111] - Fix a bug in systemd breaking running systemd-analyze on an instantiated systemd unit.

2024-02-02

[xry111] - Update to tzdata-2024a. Fixes #5428.

[xry111] - Update to glibc-2.39 (security fix). Fixes #5426.

[xry111] - Update to linux-6.7.3. Fixes #5427.

2024-02-01

[bdubbs] - Update to openssl-3.2.1 (security fix). Fixes #5425.

[bdubbs] - Update to zlib-1.3.1. Fixes #5419.

[bdubbs] - Update to xz-5.4.6. Fixes #5423.

[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.7.2. Fixes #5422.

[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20240125. Addresses #5006.

[bdubbs] - Update to binutils-2.42. Fixes #5424.

[bdubbs] - Update to acl-2.3.2. Fixes #5421.

[bdubbs] - Update upstream fixes for readline-8.2. Fixes #5420.

[bdubbs] - Apply upstream fix for bash-5.2.21. Fixes #5420.

2024-01-21

[xry111] - Apply upstream fix for pkgconf-2.1.0 regression. Fixes #5414.

[xry111] - Update to jinja2-3.1.3 (security fix). Fixes #5411.

[xry111] - Update to bc-6.7.5. Fixes #5408.

[xry111] - Update to attr-2.5.2. Fixes #5412.

[xry111] - Update to ncurses-6.4-20230520 (security fix). Fixes #5416.

[xry111] - Update to markupsafe-2.1.4. Fixes #5418.

[xry111] - Update to linux-6.7.1. Fixes #5406.

[xry111] - Update to iproute2-6.7.0. Fixes #5410.

[xry111] - Update to vim-9.1.0041. Addresses #4500.

[xry111] - Update to iana-etc-20240117. Addresses #5006.

[xry111] - Update to shadow-4.14.3. Fixes #5413.

[xry111] - Fix CVE-2024-0684 for coreutils-9.4. Fixes #5417.

2024-01-18

[xry111] - Edit a ncurses header to always use the wide-character ABI compatible with libncursesw.so because we are faking the 8-bit libncurses.so with it. Fixes #5415.

2024-01-09

[renodr] - Fix the definition of the C.UTF-8 locale. Fixes #5409.

2023-12-31

[xry111] - Add –enable-default-hash-style=gnu configuring binutils. Fixes #5401.

[xry111] - Fix CVE-2023-7008 for systemd-255. Fixes #5405.

[xry111] - Update to iana-etc-20231205. Addresses #5006.

[xry111] - Update to tzdata-2023d. Fixes #5399.

[xry111] - Update to linux-6.6.8. Fixes #5397.

[xry111] - Update to meson-1.3.1. Fixes #5402.

[xry111] - Update to grub-2.12. Fixes #5396.

[xry111] - Update to inetutils-2.5. Fixes #5404.

[xry111] - Update to setuptools-69.0.3. Fixes #5400.

[xry111] - Update to xml-parser-2.47. Fixes #5403.

[xry111] - Update to vim-9.0.2189. Addresses #4500.

[xry111] - Update to autoconf-2.72. Fixes #5398.

2023-12-16

[xry111] - Update to systemd-255. Fixes #5390.

2023-12-14

[bdubbs] - Update to util-linux v2.39.3. Fixes #5388.

[bdubbs] - Update to python3-3.12.1. Fixes #5392.

[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.6.7. Fixes #5387.

[bdubbs] - Update to kbd-2.6.4. Fixes #5393.

[bdubbs] - Update to bc-6.7.4. Fixes #5389.

[bdubbs] - Reformat util-linux configure parameters. Fixes #5395.

2023-12-04

[thomas] - Modify commands for install Python docs to avoid too restrictive permissions on the files and dirs.

2023-11-30

[bdubbs] - Update to vim-9.0.2136. Addresses #4500.

[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20231117. Addresses #5006.

[bdubbs] - Update to bc-6.7.3. Fixes #5385.

[bdubbs] - Update to wheel-0.42.0 (Python Module). Fixes #5384.

[bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.38.2. Fixes #5383.

[bdubbs] - Update to pkgconf-2.1.0. Fixes #5382.

[bdubbs] - Update to readline patches 002 through 007. Fixes #5381.

[bdubbs] - Update to openssl-3.2.0. Fixes #5380.

[bdubbs] - Update to setuptools-69.0.2. Fixes #5379.

[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.6.3. Fixes #5378.

[bdubbs] - Update to meson-1.3.0. Fixes #5377.

[bdubbs] - Update to gettext-0.22.4. Fixes #5376.

2023-11-13

[xry111] - Update to elfutils-0.190. Fixes #5373.

[xry111] - Update to vim-9.0.2103. Addresses #4500.

[xry111] - Update to linux-6.6.1. Fixes #5369.

[xry111] - Update to xz-5.4.5. Fixes #5371.

[xry111] - Update to iana-etc-20231107. Addresses #5006.

[xry111] - Update to gawk-5.3.0. Fixes #5372.

[xry111] - Update to bash-5.2.21. Fixes #5375.

[xry111] - Update to iproute2-6.6.0. Fixes #5374.

2023-11-01

[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20231019. Addresses #5006.

[bdubbs] - Update to wheel-0.41.3. Fixes #5370.

[bdubbs] - Update to shadow-4.14.2. Fixes #5368.

[bdubbs] - Update to openssl-3.1.4. Fixes #5367.

[bdubbs] - Update to texinfo-7.1. Fixes #5364.

[bdubbs] - Update to meson-1.2.3. Fixes #5366.

[bdubbs] - Update to bc-6.7.2. Fixes #5363.

[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.5.9. Fixes #5365.

[bdubbs] - Update to Python-3.12.0. Fixes #5357.

[bdubbs] - Add setuptools-68.2.2. Fixes #5358.

2023-10-15

[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.5.7. Fixes #5362.

[bdubbs] - Update to shadow-4.14.1. Fixes #5361.

[bdubbs] - Update to gettext-0.22.3. Fixes #5359.

2023-10-03

[xry111] - Update Glibc upstream fixes patch to fix CVE-2023-4911.

2023-10-01

[bdubbs] - Disable building nscd in glibc. Fixes #5349.

[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20230929. Addresses #5006.

[bdubbs] - Update to vim-9.0.1968. Addresses #4500.

[bdubbs] - Update to openssl-3.1.3. Fixes #5350.

[bdubbs] - Update to meson-1.2.2. Fixes #5356.

[bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.12.0. Fixes #5354.

[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.5.5. Fixes #5352.

[bdubbs] - Update to kmod-31. Fixes #5355.

[bdubbs] - Update to kbd-2.6.3. Fixes #5361.

[bdubbs] - Update to gettext-0.22.2. Fixes #5348.

[bdubbs] - Update to bc-6.7.0. Fixes #5353.

2023-09-24

[xry111] - Update Glibc upstream fixes patch to plug a memory leak introduced by the security fix.

2023-09-17

[xry111] - Update to linux-6.5.3. Fixes #5343.

[xry111] - Update to iana-etc-20230912. Addresses #5006.

[xry111] - Update to iproute2-6.5.0. Fixes #5342.

2023-09-13

[xry111] - Fix CVE-2023-4806 for Glibc-2.38. Fixes #5347.

2023-09-12

[xry111] - Fix CVE-2023-4527 for Glibc-2.38. Fixes #5346.

2023-09-07

[xry111] - Fix an issue in pkgconf-2.0.3 causing BLFS packages fail to build. Fixes #5341.

2023-09-05

[xry111] - Move pkgconf before binutils for binutils building system to detect zstd properly. Fixes #5340.

[xry111] - Update to linux-6.5.1. Fixes #5332.

[xry111] - Update to pkgconf-2.0.3. Fixes #5339.

[xry111] - Update to dbus-1.14.10. Fixes #5337.

2023-09-04

[bdubbs] - Move caution regarding building by mixing different version of LFS to General Compilation Instructions. Fixes #5338.

2023-09-02

[xry111] - Add –no-cache-dir option for pip3 wheel commands. Addresses BLFS #18466.

[bdubbs] - Update to vim-9.0.1837. Addresses #4500.

[bdubbs] - Update to zlib-1.3. Fixes #5324.

[bdubbs] - Update to wheel-0.41.2 (Python Module). Fixes #5328.

[bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.39.2. Fixes #5322.

[bdubbs] - Update to shadow-4.14.0. Fixes #5319.

[bdubbs] - Update to Python-3.11.5. Fixes #5330.

[bdubbs] - Update to procps-ng-4.0.4 (security fix for 32-bit systems). Fixes #5335.

[bdubbs] - Update to pkgconf-2.0.2. Fixes #5323.

[bdubbs] - Update to mpfr-4.2.1. Fixes #5326.

[bdubbs] - Update to kbd-2.6.2. Fixes #5318.

[bdubbs] - Update to gzip-1.13. Fixes #5325.

[bdubbs] - Update to coreutils-9.4. Fixes #5334.

[bdubbs] - Specify the 'nobody-group' for systemd. Fixes #5333.

[bdubbs] - Remove unused usb group. Fixes #5331.

2023-09-01

[bdubbs] - LFS-12.0 released.