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Hi,
You do need to use the development version of BLFS when you build LFS version 6.4 or later. I have good personal experience with LFS 6.4 up to and including 6.7 and the BLFS development version. I haven't tried BLFS on LFS 6.8 as of yet, but that should not be a problem.
Two things about BLFS that are important:
1 - LFS and BLFS differ in the way they are approached.
LFS is a simple approach: Start at page 1 and work your way through the book page by page until you reach the last page.
BLFS does not take that approach. The BLFS book is a collection of packages and dependencies, you might or might not want to install depending on your personal choice/liking. For example: six editors are mentioned in the book, you install the one you want/like.
The only exception are the first 3 chapters (especially chapter 3), you need to read/do these first. Chapter 3 takes care of a lot of configuration to make the system more workable (out of scope for LFS, which is just the bare basics).
After you finish chapter 3 you need to decide what it is you want to install. The required dependencies must be installed, the optional dependencies can be installed depending on your needs. Every so often you see recommended dependencies, those are strictly speaking not needed, but I would advise to see those as required.
Because the BLFS approach differs from LFS you will not find a large tarball which holds all the BLFS packages/patches. You only download the package(s) and patch(es) you need.
2 - The development version of the BLFS book is continuously changing (package versions etc). You do need to check if package versions are still valid (dependencies for package you want to install for example). I haven't had any trouble with that, but you might run into this. The building method mentioned in the package chapters are the same (in general) and can be used even if a version changes. Also look at the user notes mentioned in most of the package chapters, sometimes important information is mentioned.
Hope this helps.
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