This is version 20150528-dpkg of the Linux From Scratch book, dated May 28, 2015. 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:
2015-05-14
2015-04-26
[bdubbs] - Updated to tzdata-2015d. Fixes #3780.
2015-04-24
[krejzi] - Added a fix for security issue in Glibc (CVE-2015-1781). Thanks to Ken Moffat for identifying the problem and the fix.
[krejzi] - Fixed Ncurses and Perl build with GCC 5. Thanks to Ken Moffat and Douglas R. Reno for providing the patches.
[krejzi] - Updated to GCC-5.1.0. Fixes #3779.
2015-04-21
[bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-3.8.3. Fixes #3778.
2015-04-16
2015-03-31
[bdubbs] - Adjust discussion of LFS envronment variable to be before first use.
[bdubbs] - Use --with-glibc-version=2.11 in gcc-pass1.
[bdubbs] - Update to dejagnu-1.5.3. Fixes #3773.
2015-03-28
2015-03-20
[bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.19.2. Fixes #3768.
2015-03-15
[bdubbs] - Update to tcl-core-8.6.4. Fixes #3766.
[bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.26.1. Fixes #3767.
[bdubbs] - Remove non-essential static libraries from the installation. Added a new section in Chapter 6 Introduction, suppressed many static libraries in different packages, and removed the remaining in the Cleaning Up section. Fixes #3751.
2015-03-11
[bdubbs] - Update to intltool-0.51.0. Fixes #3764.
2015-03-08
2015-03-07
2015-03-06
[krejzi] - LFS-7.7-systemd released.