From: "Christopher Yeoh" 
To: FHS Discussion List 
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] FHS 2.3 Released

Hi,

FHS 2.3 is finally released:

http://www.samba.org/~cyeoh/

This is a temporary URL. The normal FHS site at
http://www.pathname.com/fhs will be updated soon.

Thank you to all those who contributed fixes and feedback.  

Summary of changes from FHS 2.2 to FHS 2.3

Add /media: 
	http://bugs.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27

Add /srv: 
	http://bugs.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16

Allow for /etc/opt/ and /var/opt/
	http://bugs.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34

User programs sockets can't go in /var/run
	http://bugs.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36

Remove obsolete, misleading footnote text about location of C preprocessor
	http://bugs.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38

Clarify some terms and the role of /etc/
	http://bugs.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29

Default character set for en_GB shoudl not be ASCII (Updated from beta1)
	http://bugs.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9

/srv/cvs
	http://bugs.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3

/lib64 os-specific clarification:
	http://bugs.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4

Scope of FHS clarification:
	http://bugs.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5

Home directory dot file clarification:
	http://bugs.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6

Adding /usr/local/share and /usr/local/share/man:
	http://bugs.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7

Allow /usr/local/etc:
	http://bugs.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8

Add /usr/share/xml: don't use /usr/share/sgml for XML:
	http://bugs.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13

Note on crash dumps, clarification of config files in /boot:
	http://bugs.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14

Expressedly note that RATIONALE is non-normative:
	http://bugs.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20

Loosen /dev requirements, define only three:
	http://bugs.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25

Fix mailing list address:
	http://bugs.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26

Allow provider subdirs under opt:
	http://bugs.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28

Clarify /etc:
	http://bugs.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29

Weaken new root directory ban:
	http://bugs.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30

Weaken /usr/src to a place for reference source, not all source:
	http://bugs.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31

Clarifies placement of unix domain sockets in /var/run
	
Chris
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cyeoh@au.ibm.com
IBM OzLabs Linux Development Group
Canberra, Australia