[lfs-announce] LFS and BLFS 12.0 are released.

The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of
LFS Version 12.0, LFS Version 12.0 (systemd), BLFS Version 12.0, and
BLFS Version 12.0 (systemd).

This release is a major update to both LFS and BLFS.

The LFS release includes updates to binutils-2.41, gcc-13.2.0,
and glibc-2.38. In total, 38 packages were updated since the last
release. The Linux kernel has also been updated to version 6.4.12.

Other significant changes include:
- Addition of libxcrypt as a separate package.
Previously this package was included with glibc.
- For the sysV version of the book, udev is now extracted
directly from the systemd tarball. This change also requires
building the Python modules jinja and markupsafe.
- The new package pkgconf is now used instead of pkg-config
because the later packages is no longer maintained.
- The new Python module flit-core was added as a new required
dependency for the wheel module.


The BLFS version includes approximately 1000 packages beyond the base
Linux From Scratch Version 11.2 book. This release has 1543 updates
from the previous BLFS version including package updates and numerous text and
formatting changes.

New in this version of BLFS is the LXQt Desktop Environment
and an alternative method of building Qt with lighter
dependency requirements than the full Qt package.

DEPRECATION NOTICE: Future versions of BLFS will remove
the unmaintained LXDE Desktop Environment and support for
the Reiser file system (reiserfsprogs).

Thanks for this release goes to many contributors. Notably:

Douglas Reno
Pierre Labastie
Xi Ruoyao
Thomas Trepl
Ken Moffat
Tim Tassonis
Rahul Chandra

You can read the books online[0]-[3], or download[4]-[7] to read locally.

Please direct any comments about this release to the LFS development
team at lfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org or
blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org. Registration for the mailing lists
is required to avoid junk email.

-- Bruce Dubbs
LFS

[0] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/12.0/
[1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/12.0/
[2] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/12.0-systemd/
[3] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/12.0-systemd/

[4] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/12.0/
[5] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/downloads/12.0/
[6] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/12.0-systemd/
[7] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/downloads/12.0-systemd/