Linux Standard Base - Version History

Version History

  • 1.0: Initial release 2001-06-29.
  • 1.1: Released 2002-01-22. Added hardware specific specifications (IA32).
  • 1.2: Released 2002-06-28. Added hardware specific specifications (PowerPC 32-bit). Certification began July 2002.
  • 1.2.1: Released October 2002. Added Itanium.
  • 1.3: Released 2002-12-17. Added hardware specific specifications (Itanium, Enterprise System Architecture/390, z/Architecture).
  • 2.0: Released 2004-08-31.
    • LSB is modularized to:
      • LSB-Core
      • LSB-CXX
      • LSB-Graphics
      • LSB-I18n (not released)
    • New hardware specific specifications (PowerPC 64-bit, AMD64).
    • Synchronized to Single UNIX Specification (SUS) version 3.
  • 2.0.1: Released 2004-10-21, ISO version of LSB 2.0, which included specification for all hardware architectures (except LSB-Graphics, of which only a generic version is available).
  • 2.1: Released 2005-03-11.
  • 3.0: Released 2005-07-01. Among other library changes:
    • C++ ABI is changed to the one used by gcc 3.4
    • The core specification is updated to ISO POSIX (2003)
    • Technical Corrigenda 1: 2005
  • 3.1: Released 2005-10-31. This version has been submitted as ISO/IEC 23360.
  • 3.2: Released 2008-01-28. This version has been submitted as ISO/IEC 23360.
  • 4.0: Released 2008-11-11. This version contains the following features:
    • glibc 2.4
    • Binary compatibility with LSB 3.x
    • Easier to use SDK
    • Support for newer versions of GTK and Cairo graphical libraries
    • Java (optional module)
    • Simpler ways of creating LSB-compliant RPM packages
    • Crypto API (via the Network Security Services library) (optional module)
  • 4.1: Released 2011-02-16 :
    • Java removed

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