Linux From Scratch 12.3 Version 12.3
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Linux From Scratch 12.3 Version 12.3
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Distro Watch ☛ Distribution Release: Linux From Scratch 12.3
Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a project that provides you with the steps necessary to build your own custom Linux system from source code. The latest version of the project's handbook, version 12.3, introduces a handful of package updates and new security patches. [...]
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LWN ☛ Linux from Scratch version 12.3 released
Version 12.3 of Linux From Scratch (LFS) has been released, along with Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS) 12.3. LFS provides step-by-step instructions on building a customized GNU/Linux system entirely from source, and BLFS helps to extend an LFS installation into a more usable system. Notable changes in this release include toolchain updates to GNU Binutils 2.44, GNU C Library (glibc) 2.41, and GNU/Linux 6.13.2. The Changelog has a full list of changes since the previous stable release.
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LFS and BLFS 12.3 are released.
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 12.3, LFS Version 12.3 (systemd), BLFS Version 12.3, and BLFS Version 12.3 (systemd).
This release is a major update to both LFS and BLFS.
The LFS release includes updates to binutils-2.44 and glibc-2.41. In total, 48 packages were updated since the last release and extensive updates to the text have been made throughout the book to improve readability. The Linux kernel has also been updated to version 6.13.4.
Overall there have been over 100 commits to LFS since the previous stable version of the book. Packages that have security updates include: expat, jinja2, Python, openssl, and vim. See https://rivendell.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/advisories/12.2.html for a complete description of security updates since the last stable release.
In BLFS new packages that were added include: sysmon3/sysmond, zxing-cpp, kdsoap-ws-discovery-client and plasma-activities-stats for kio-extras, docbook-xsl-ns, libgstgtk4 in support of Snapshot, cargo-c needed for librsvg, LuaJIT to replace Lua 5.2 and glslc from shaderc needed for gtk4.
The qt5 package has been removed.