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BLFS 6.3-rc3 has been released!

Randy McMurchy - 2008/08/12

The BLFS Development team is pleased to announce the release of the 6.3-rc3 version of BLFS. This is a release candidate of the 6.3 version, due to be released on August 24th. You can view the 6.3-rc3 version on your local mirror. For additional information about the release, along with other download and format options, see the 6.3 Release Notes.

BLFS 6.3-rc2 has been released!

Randy McMurchy - 2008/05/16

The BLFS Development team is pleased to announce the release of the 6.3-rc2 version of BLFS. This is a release candidate of the 6.3 version, due to be released on May 25th. You can view the 6.3-rc2 version on your local mirror. For additional information about the release, along with other download and format options, see the 6.3 Release Notes.

BLFS 6.3-rc1 has been released!

Randy McMurchy - 2008/05/12

The BLFS Development team is pleased to announce the release of the 6.3-rc1 version of BLFS. This is a release candidate of the 6.3 version, due to be released on May 25th. You can view the 6.3-rc1 version on your local mirror. For additional information about the release, along with other download and format options, see the 6.3 Release Notes.

New BLFS Editors

Randy McMurchy - 2008/05/12

The BLFS Team is pleased to belatedly announce that several new Editors have been brought on board. Thanks to Robert Daniels, Ken Moffet, Chris Staub, Thomas Trepl and Christian Wurst along with all the other members of the BLFS Team for working so hard the last few months to get the 6.3 release going.

New BLFS Editor

Randy McMurchy - 2007/08/10

The BLFS Team is proud to announce that Ag Hatzimanikas has joined the team as a new editor. Ag has been involved with the *LFS projects for many years and brings extraordinary enthusiasm along with a high degree of technical ability. Ag also contributes vast i18n experience to the team.

BLFS 6.2.0 has been released!

Randy McMurchy - 2007/02/14

The BLFS Development team is proud to announce the release of BLFS Version 6.2.0. You can view the 6.2.0 version on your local mirror. For additional information about the release, along with other download and format options, see the 6.2.0 Release Notes.

BLFS 6.2.0-rc2 has been released!

Randy McMurchy - 2007/02/07

The BLFS Development team is proud to announce the release of the 6.2.0-rc2 version of BLFS. This is a release candidate of the 6.2.0 version, due to be released on February 14th. You can view the 6.2.0-rc2 version on your local mirror. For additional information about the release, along with other download and format options, see the 6.2.0 Release Notes.

BLFS 6.2.0-rc1 has been released!

Randy McMurchy - 2007/02/03

The BLFS Development team is proud to announce the release of the 6.2.0-rc1 version of BLFS. This is a release candidate of the 6.2.0 version, due to be released on February 14th. You can view the 6.2.0-rc1 version on your local mirror. For additional information about the release, along with other download and format options, see the 6.2.0 Release Notes.

BLFS 6.2.0-rc1 release is coming soon!

Randy McMurchy - 2007/01/15

The BLFS team is ramping up for the next release of the BLFS book. There's just a few remaining bugs left to knock out and we'll be prepared to release a 6.2.0-rc1 version for community testing. This release is meant to supplement the LFS-6.2 version and includes many, many new features, packages and instructions. For the time being, if you're building on top of an LFS-6.2 platform, the development (SVN) version of BLFS is what you want to use. It is stable (though many packages could stand version updates) and recommended for all LFS-6.2 installations.

New BLFS Editor

Randy McMurchy - 2007/01/15

The BLFS Team is proud to announce that Alexander E. Patrakov has joined the team as a new editor. Alexander has been involved with the *LFS projects for many years and brings a high degree of technical ability, along with extensive i18n experience to the team.

New BLFS Editor

Bruce Dubbs - 2005/12/07

The BLFS Team is proud to announce that Andy Benton has joined the team as a new editor. Andy has been a long time participant in the BLFS project and brings a lot of skill and enthusiasm to the project.

BLFS 6.1 is released

Bruce Dubbs - 2005/08/20

The BLFS Editing Team is proud to announce that BLFS 6.1 has been released. This version complements the LFS 6.1 book and is available for download in pdf, single html page, and multiple html page formats. It is also available for on-line reading from your local mirror

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Latest SVN Changes

• Randy McMurchy - 2008/08/24

  • Fixed a broken URL for the libidn package
  • Fixed a broken URL for the libidn package
  • Fixed a broken URL for the GnuPG package
  • Fixed a broken URL for the GnuPG package
  • Fixed a broken URL for the GnuPG2 package
  • Fixed a broken URL for the GnuPG2 package
  • Fixed a broken URL for the Libassuan package
  • Fixed a broken URL for the Libassuan package
  • Changed hard-coded URLs to use the Anduin entity
  • Changed hard-coded URLs to use the Anduin entity
  • Fixed a broken URL for the libpcap package
  • Fixed a broken URL for the libpcap package
  • Updates for the BLFS-6.3 release
  • Updates for the BLFS-6.3 release
  • Create the final BLFS-6.3 release tag

• Thomas Trepl - 2008/08/20

  • Add section about bootscripts

• Randy McMurchy - 2008/08/17

  • Minor text corrections
  • Minor text corrections
  • Modified the sudo instructions so the Linux-PAM configuration file is correct, thanks to Jeremy Henty for the report
  • Modified the sudo instructions so the Linux-PAM configuration file is correct, thanks to Jeremy Henty for the report

• Randy McMurchy - 2008/08/16

  • Updated the bootscript version so a new tarball will be generated; minor text corrections to the CrackLib instructions
  • Merged the CrackLib fixes from trunk

• Thomas Trepl - 2008/08/15

  • Fix issue 2549, missing test-data

• Thomas Trepl - 2008/08/14

  • Fix a mistyped variable name

• Randy McMurchy - 2008/08/12

  • Updates for the 6.3-rc3 release including mods to shorten some line lengths to fit the PDF output on a page
  • Creating a 6.3-rc3 tag
  • Fixed a typo in the Vim instructions
  • Fixed a typo in the Vim instructions

• Thomas Trepl - 2008/08/12

  • Fix a mistyped varname in bootscript

• Randy McMurchy - 2008/08/11

  • Fixed broken Whois download URL
  • Fixed broken Whois download URL
  • Fixed broken rsync download URL
  • Fixed broken rsync download URL
  • Removed obsolete X Window components FTP download URL
  • Removed obsolete X Window components FTP download URL
  • Added the new Firefox mozconfig file to the auxfiles
  • Fixed broken Thunderbird download URLs
  • Fixed broken Thunderbird download URLs
  • Removed broken GSview FTP download URL
  • Removed broken GSview FTP download URL
  • Fixed broken Ghostscript fonts download URL
  • Fixed broken Ghostscript fonts download URL
  • Added parameters to the Pin Entry instructions so the configuration process won't fail if the optional dependencies are not installed, thanks to Brian Cade for the report
  • Added parameters to the Pin Entry instructions so the configuration process won't fail if the optional dependencies are not installed, thanks to Brian Cade for the report
  • Changed the location of the Stunnel patch due to upstream's removing it, thanks to Brian Cade for the report
  • Changed the location of the Stunnel patch due to upstream's removing it, thanks to Brian Cade for the report
  • Added text to the AutoFS instructions pointing out that the wget package must be installed, thanks to Leonhard Landrock for the report
  • Added text to the AutoFS instructions pointing out that the wget package must be installed, thanks to Leonhard Landrock for the report
  • Clarified the text in the Python instructions about requiring the HTML documentation
  • Clarified the text in the Python instructions about requiring the HTML documentation
  • Updated to reflect the release of BLFS-6.3-rc3
  • Updated the Bootscript tarball to ensure it is current

• Randy McMurchy - 2008/08/10

  • Removed extraneous spaces from the XML
  • Removed extraneous spaces from the XML
  • Fixed the popt HTTP download URL
  • Fixed the popt HTTP download URL
  • Fixed the Apache Ant download URLs
  • Fixed the Apache Ant download URLs
  • Updated the Text-CSV_XS Perl module to 0.52
  • Updated the Text-CSV_XS Perl module to 0.52
  • Merged r7516 from trunk into the 6.3 branch
  • Updated the PAR-Dist Perl module to 0.31
  • Updated the PAR-Dist Perl module to 0.31