This is version 7.9 of the Linux From Scratch book, dated March 8, 2016. 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:
2016-03-08
[bdubbs] - LFS-7.9 released.
2016-03-07
[bdubbs] - Disable static libraries in texinfo and document installation of XSParagraph.so. Fixes #3896.
2016-02-26
2016-02-19
2016-02-16
[bdubbs] - Update patches for bash, binutils, glibc, mpfr, and gcc from upstream repositories. Fixes (among other things) #3887.
2016-02-14
[bdubbs] - LFS-7.9-rc1 released.
2016-02-09
[bdubbs] - Update coreutils-i18n patch.
[bdubbs] - Update to texinfo-6.1. Fixes #3886.
2016-02-05
[bdubbs] - Update to grep-2.23. Fixes #3881.
2016-02-02
2016-01-27
[bdubbs] - Move external build directories into dedicated build directories inside the source tree for binutils, gcc, and glibc.
2016-01-24
2016-01-17
2016-01-01
[bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-4.04. Fixes #3875.
2015-12-29
2015-12-21
[bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.3.3.
2015-12-19
[bdubbs] - Reword FHS Compliance Note. Fixes #3871.
[bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.22.1. Fixes #3870.
[bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.22.1. Fixes #3870.
[bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.3.1. Fixes #3868.
[bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-4.03. Fixes #3867.
[bdubbs] - Fix xz problem identified upstream. Fixes #3869.
2015-12-06
[bdubbs] - Update to gcc-5.3.0. Fixes #3866.
2015-12-03
2015-11-18
2015-11-06
2015-11-02
2015-10-25
[bdubbs] - Revise version-check.sh to flag bad /bin/sh symlinks.
2015-10-17
2015-10-12
2015-10-11
[bdubbs] - Reset location of anduin hosted files.
2015-10-02
[bdubbs] - Change references to ncursesw5 to ncursesw6. Thanks to Pierre Labastie for the patch.
2015-10-01
[bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.7.3. Fixes #3837.
[bdubbs] - Update to gettext-0.19.6. Fixes #3838.
[bdubbs] - Update to file-5.25. Fixes #3839.
[bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.2.1. Fixes #3840.
[bdubbs] - Update to pkg-config-0.29. Fixes #3842.
[bdubbs] - Update to xz-5.2.2. Fixes #3843.
[bdubbs] - LFS-7.8 released.