1.2. What's new since the last release

#### Linux From Scratch - Version 11.1-rc1

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# 1.2. What's new since the last release

In this version of LFS, there has been a major reorganization of the book using techniques that avoid changing the host system and provides a more straight forward build process.

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

Upgraded to:

- Automake-1.16.5

- Bash 5.1.16

- Bc 5.2.2

- Binutils-2.38

- Bison-3.8.2

- Coreutils-9.0

- E2fsprogs-1.46.5

- Eudev-3.2.11

- Expat-2.4.4

- File-5.41

- Findutils-4.9.0

- Gawk-5.1.1

- GDBM-1.23

- Glibc-2.35

- Gzip-1.11

- IANA-Etc-20220207

- Inetutils-2.2

- IPRoute2-5.16.0

- Libcap-2.63

- Libelf-0.186 (from elfutils)

- Libpipeline-1.5.5

- Linux-5.16.9

- Man-DB-2.10.1

- Meson-0.61.1

- Ncurses-6.3

- Openssl-3.0.1

- Python-3.10.2

- Readline-8.1.2

- Shadow-4.11.1

- SysVinit-3.01

- Tcl-8.6.12

- Tzdata-2021e

- Util-Linux-2.37.4

- Vim-8.2.4383

- Zstd-1.5.2

Added:

- binutils-2.38-lto_fix-1.patch

- coreutils-9.0-chmod_fix-1.patch

- file-5.40-upstream_fixes-1.patch

- shadow-4.10-useradd_segfault-1.patch

- sysvinit-3.01-consolidated-1.patch

Removed:

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