diff --git a/general/genlib/liblinear.xml b/general/genlib/liblinear.xml
index c32c44ab87..8960481cd2 100644
--- a/general/genlib/liblinear.xml
+++ b/general/genlib/liblinear.xml
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 
   <!ENTITY liblinear-download-http "https://github.com/cjlin1/liblinear/archive/v&liblinear-version;/liblinear-&liblinear-version;.tar.gz">
   <!ENTITY liblinear-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY liblinear-md5sum        "90197ad99880ee15df556753ec31d68a">
-  <!ENTITY liblinear-size          "508 KB">
-  <!ENTITY liblinear-buildsize     "1.5 MB">
+  <!ENTITY liblinear-md5sum        "2acc44731f0de1d5244a9599784e3dcc">
+  <!ENTITY liblinear-size          "512 KB">
+  <!ENTITY liblinear-buildsize     "1.4 MB">
   <!ENTITY liblinear-time          "less than 0.1 SBU">
 ]>
 
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 47d08d34b7..b1ce16484f 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -45,6 +45,22 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>October 7th, 2018</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to nghttp2-1.34.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;11207">#11207</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to x265-2.9. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;11219">#11219</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to liblinear-221. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;11212">#11212</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to ghostscript-9.25. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;11147">#11147</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Update to lxterminal-0.3.2. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;11178">#11178</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/multimedia/libdriv/x265.xml b/multimedia/libdriv/x265.xml
index 3d0c3b27e1..7f60a2090d 100644
--- a/multimedia/libdriv/x265.xml
+++ b/multimedia/libdriv/x265.xml
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 
   <!ENTITY x265-download-http "https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/downloads/x265_&x265-version;.tar.gz">
   <!ENTITY x265-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY x265-md5sum        "b68dcd4e8a495e53e53034a11fec5eb9">
+  <!ENTITY x265-md5sum        "693ee4ce7929a59735f441107310f0bb">
   <!ENTITY x265-size          "1.3 MB">
-  <!ENTITY x265-buildsize     "34 MB">
+  <!ENTITY x265-buildsize     "35 MB">
   <!ENTITY x265-time          "1.0 SBU (using parallelism=4)">
 ]>
 
diff --git a/networking/netlibs/nghttp2.xml b/networking/netlibs/nghttp2.xml
index 4aeb9e83f5..6683b0e0dc 100644
--- a/networking/netlibs/nghttp2.xml
+++ b/networking/netlibs/nghttp2.xml
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 
   <!ENTITY nghttp2-download-http "https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/releases/download/v&nghttp2-version;/nghttp2-&nghttp2-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY nghttp2-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY nghttp2-md5sum        "20b35b896c06a7f0027ee553d7a91278">
+  <!ENTITY nghttp2-md5sum        "77f2a1d5359ec2274b3de8e9d80587ba">
   <!ENTITY nghttp2-size          "1.5 MB">
-  <!ENTITY nghttp2-buildsize     "16 MB">
+  <!ENTITY nghttp2-buildsize     "17 MB">
   <!ENTITY nghttp2-time          "0.1 SBU">
 ]>
 
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 19c1ca77e4..fc3a412531 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
 <!ENTITY libidn2-version              "2.0.5">
 <!ENTITY libiodbc-version             "3.52.12">
 <!ENTITY libksba-version              "1.3.5">
-<!ENTITY liblinear-version            "220">
+<!ENTITY liblinear-version            "221">
 <!ENTITY libmbim-version              "1.16.2">
 <!ENTITY libnfsidmap-version          "0.26">
 <!ENTITY libpaper-version             "1.1.24+nmu5">
@@ -482,7 +482,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY libsoup-version              "2.64.1">
 <!ENTITY libtirpc-version             "1.1.4">
 <!ENTITY neon-version                 "0.30.2">
-<!ENTITY nghttp2-version              "1.33.0">
+<!ENTITY nghttp2-version              "1.34.0">
 <!ENTITY rpcsvc-proto-version         "1.4">
 <!ENTITY serf-version                 "1.3.9">
 <!ENTITY uhttpmock-version            "0.5.1">
@@ -834,7 +834,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY taglib-version               "1.11.1">
 <!ENTITY v4l-utils-version            "1.14.2">
 <!ENTITY x264-version                 "20180819-2245">
-<!ENTITY x265-version                 "2.8">
+<!ENTITY x265-version                 "2.9">
 <!ENTITY xine-lib-version             "1.2.9">
 <!ENTITY xvid-version                 "1.3.5">
 
@@ -876,7 +876,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!-- Chapter 50 -->
 <!ENTITY cups-version                 "2.2.8">
 <!ENTITY cups-filters-version         "1.21.1">
-<!ENTITY gs-version                   "9.24">
+<!ENTITY gs-version                   "9.25">
 <!ENTITY gutenprint-version           "5.2.14">
 
 <!-- Chapter 51 -->
diff --git a/pst/printing/gs.xml b/pst/printing/gs.xml
index f58e87e38e..16352e2b46 100644
--- a/pst/printing/gs.xml
+++ b/pst/printing/gs.xml
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@
   <!--  When updating, ensure gs9xx is updated in url -->
 
   <!ENTITY gs-download-http
-  "https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/download/gs924/ghostscript-&gs-version;.tar.gz">
+  "https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/download/gs925/ghostscript-&gs-version;.tar.gz">
   <!ENTITY gs-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY gs-md5sum        "c5c3fa8eb737a6540814314a9d9e4995">
+  <!ENTITY gs-md5sum        "eebd0fadbfa8e800094422ce65e94d5d">
   <!ENTITY gs-size          "40 MB">
-  <!ENTITY gs-buildsize     "176 MB (with fonts and libgs.so)">
+  <!ENTITY gs-buildsize     "157 MB (with fonts and libgs.so)">
   <!ENTITY gs-time          "1.7 SBU (with libgs.so)">
 
   <!ENTITY gs-standard-fonts-download
@@ -71,16 +71,16 @@
     </itemizedlist>
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
-
+<!--
     <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
       <listitem>
-	<para>
+        <para>
           Required Patch: <ulink
-	  url="&patch-root;/ghostscript-&gs-version;-upstream_fixes-1.patch"/>
+          url="&patch-root;/ghostscript-&gs-version;-upstream_fixes-1.patch"/>
         </para>
       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
-
+-->
       <para>If you wish, you can download additional fonts.</para>
 
     <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
@@ -168,14 +168,12 @@
       <application>libjpeg</application>, and <application>libpng</application>:
     </para>
 
-<screen><userinput>rm -rf freetype lcms2 jpeg libpng</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>rm -rf freetype lcms2mt jpeg libpng</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Compile <application>Ghostscript</application>:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>rm -rf zlib &amp;&amp;
 
-patch -Np1 -i ../ghostscript-&gs-version;-upstream_fixes-1.patch &amp;&amp;
-
 ./configure --prefix=/usr           \
             --disable-compile-inits \
             --enable-dynamic        \