[lfs-announce] 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.

See https://rivendell.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/advisories/12.2.html for BLFS
packages that were affected by security updates since the last stable release.

Overall there were more than 862 tickets closed via more than 1560 commits made to BLFS.

Please see the ChangeLog in the book for a full list of changes.

Thanks for this release goes to many contributors. Notably:

Douglas Reno
Xi Ruoyao
Thomas Trepl
Pierre Labastie
Rahul Chandra
Zeckma

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/12.3/
[1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/12.3/
[2] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/12.3-systemd/
[3] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/12.3-systemd/

[4] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/12.3/
[5] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/downloads/12.3/
[6] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/12.3-systemd/
[7] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/downloads/12.3-systemd/