In regular distros, there is usually a Stable and a Development version. They may be called by different names, obviously. The development version gets changed every few days to weeks. The stable only gets the rather important security fixes and/or overlooked glaring fatal errors.

After a Stable version of LFS is released, does it ever change?

Consider a situation in which I download the Stable book right now, plus all packages and patches and then simply leave them in a directory.

A month or two later, I download the book, etc. again. Will there be any differences?

The reason I ask is that I habitually wait a month or two after a new "stable" release (of any distro) before trying (or upgrading to) it and maybe this time I did not need to.

Hi

What I do is use the dev book there is a change log which lists the changed packages
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/...changelog.html

There may be errata published to correct errors discovered after release. But as far I ever noticed, the version of the book called "Current Stable" and which has a numbered version (like the current 8.0 version) never changes until the next stable version is released, usually in about 6 months. The development version of the book which has "SVN" and a date in its name changes almost daily, or at least very often.

Any changes corrected by errata usually just fix some typo or command error. I don't ever remember the package set changing after a stable version is released.

I would say that's a reasonable thing to do with LFS and BLFS, too. But when the stable versions are released, they've usually survived as a couple of release candidates that lots of people tried and reported issues on at the wikis and mailing lists. Very few errata get published after release.

P.S.: I, too, build from the SVN books and pretty much ignore the stable release schedule. But everybody should do what they think is best.