diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 1dd513d9e8..2d1c48b658 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "18">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "19">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "04">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2019">
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "April 18th, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "April 19th, &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->
 <!ENTITY lfs-version  "development">          <!-- x.y|development -->
diff --git a/general/genlib/libgpg-error.xml b/general/genlib/libgpg-error.xml
index 6b84903004..9e266d499b 100644
--- a/general/genlib/libgpg-error.xml
+++ b/general/genlib/libgpg-error.xml
@@ -80,6 +80,13 @@
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of libgpg-error</title>
 
+<!-- fixed upstream, but needed for version 1.36 -->
+    <para>
+      First apply a sed to allow building with gawk-5.0:
+    </para>
+
+<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/namespace/pkg_&amp;/' src/Makefile.{am,in} src/mkstrtable.awk</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>
       Install <application>libgpg-error</application> by running the
       following commands:
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 9003dcf4de..a5e21b0c2b 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,16 @@
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
     -->
+    <listitem>
+      <para>April 19th, 2019</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[pierre] - Add a sed to build libgpg-error against
+          gawk-5.0 (from a patch proposed by Ryan Marsaw).</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>April 18th, 2019</para>
       <itemizedlist>