[lfs-announce] LFS and BLFS 12.1 are released.

The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of
LFS Version 12.1, LFS Version 12.1 (systemd), BLFS Version 12.1, and
BLFS Version 12.1 (systemd).

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

The LFS release includes updates to binutils-2.42 and glibc-2.39. In total, 43
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 6.7.4.

Overall there have been 230 commits to LFS since the previous stable version of the book.

New in this version of BLFS are Qt6, sysmon-qt, xdg-desktop-portal, simple-scan,
snapshot, wireplumber, power-profiles-daemon, and several supporting packages. This
version also added SPIRV and Vulkan packages in support of Vulkan drivers for mesa.
Please see the ChangeLog in the book for a full list of changes.

DEPRECATION NOTICE: Future versions of BLFS will remove the unmaintained GTK2 library
and Python2.

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/12.1/
[1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/12.1/
[2] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/12.1-systemd/
[3] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/12.1-systemd/

[4] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/12.1/
[5] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/downloads/12.1/
[6] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/12.1-systemd/
[7] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/downloads/12.1-systemd/