Editing Linux Standard Base (section)

==Version history==
* 1.0: Initial release June 29, 2001.
* 1.1: Released January 22, 2002. Added hardware-specific specifications ([[IA-32]]).
* 1.2: Released June 28, 2002. Added hardware-specific specifications ([[PowerPC]] [[32-bit]]). Certification began July 2002.
* 1.2.1: Released October 2002. Added [[Itanium]].
* 1.3: Released December 17, 2002. Added hardware-specific specifications (Itanium, Enterprise System Architecture/390, z/Architecture).
* 2.0: Released August 31, 2004
** LSB is modularized to LSB-Core, LSB-CXX, LSB-Graphics, and LSB-[[Internationalization and localization|I18n]] (not released)
** New hardware-specific specifications (PowerPC [[64-bit]], [[AMD64]])
** Synchronized to [[Single UNIX Specification]] (SUS) version 3
* 2.0.1: Released October 21, 2004, [[International Organization for Standardization|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 March 11, 2005.
* 3.0: Released July 1, 2005. Among other library changes:
** [[GNU C Library]] version 2.3.4
** [[C++]] ABI is changed to the one used by [[GNU Compiler Collection|gcc]] 3.4
** The core specification is updated to ISO [[POSIX]] (2003)
** Technical Corrigenda 1: 2005
* 3.1: Released October 31, 2005. This version has been submitted as ISO/IEC 23360:2006.
* 3.2: Released January 28, 2008. This version has been submitted as ISO/IEC 23360:2006.
* 4.0: Released November 11, 2008. This version contains the following features:
** [[GNU C Library]] version 2.4
** Binary compatibility with LSB 3.x
** Easier to use [[Software development kit|SDK]]
** Support for newer versions of [[GTK]] and [[Cairo (graphics)|Cairo]] graphical libraries
** [[Java (programming language)|Java]] (optional module)
** Simpler ways of creating LSB-compliant RPM packages
** Crypto API (via the [[Network Security Services]] library) (optional module)
* 4.1: Released February 16, 2011:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Java-removed-from-Linux-Standard-Base-4-1-1205368.html |title=Java removed from Linux Standard Base 4.1 |author=djwm |date=10 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207045611/http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Java-removed-from-Linux-Standard-Base-4-1-1205368.html |archive-date=December 7, 2013}}</ref>
** Java removed<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Java-removed-from-Linux-Standard-Base-4-1-1205368.html|title=Java removed from Linux Standard Base 4.1|date=March 10, 2011|work=h-online.com|access-date=August 15, 2015}}</ref>
** "Trial Use" modules from LSB 4.0, covering multimedia ([[Advanced Linux Sound Architecture|ALSA]]), security (NSS) and desktop miscellaneous ([[xdg-utils]]) have been promoted as required submodules
** Updated [[GTK+]], Cairo and [[CUPS]] libraries
** Three new test suites added
* 5.0: Released June 2, 2015, This version has been submitted as ISO/IEC 23360:2021
** [[GNU C Library]] version 2.10 (for psiginfo)
** First major release that breaks backward compatibility with earlier versions (compatible with LSB 3.0, and mostly compatible with LSB 3.1 and later, with some exceptions<ref>{{cite web |title=LSB 5.0 Release Notes: Qt&nbsp;3 Removed |url=https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/en/ReleaseNotes50#Qt_3_Removed |website=linuxfoundation.org |access-date=3 June 2015}}</ref>)
** Incorporates the changes made in [[Filesystem Hierarchy Standard|FHS 3.0]]
** Qt&nbsp;3 library has been removed
** Evolved module strategy; LSB is modularized to LSB Core, LSB Desktop, LSB Languages, LSB Imaging, and LSB Trial Use