diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index d94783da53..c0fe80ae97 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "26">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "27">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "02">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2016">
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "February 26th &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "February 27th &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/prog/perl-modules.xml b/general/prog/perl-modules.xml
index c6da1d8b0e..c254c15004 100644
--- a/general/prog/perl-modules.xml
+++ b/general/prog/perl-modules.xml
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ MD5 sum: &autovivification-md5sum;</literallayout>
     Numbers.  This module and its dependency use the standard
     <xref linkend="perl-standard-install"/>.</para>
 
-    &lfs78_checked;
+    &lfs79_checked;
 
     <itemizedlist>
       <listitem>
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ MD5 sum: &Business-ISMN-md5sum;</literallayout>
     Serial Numbers.  This module uses the standard
     <xref linkend="perl-standard-install"/>.</para>
 
-    &lfs78_checked;
+    &lfs79_checked;
 
     <itemizedlist>
       <listitem>
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 4d0712d7af..b4a0cea22e 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,16 @@
 
 -->
 
+    <listitem>
+      <para>February 27th, 2016</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Fix breakage in xindy resulting from grep-2.23.
+          Fixes <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;7489">#7489</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>February 26th, 2016</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/pst/typesetting/asymptote.xml b/pst/typesetting/asymptote.xml
index 0564205b16..60832265d4 100644
--- a/pst/typesetting/asymptote.xml
+++ b/pst/typesetting/asymptote.xml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
       technical drawing. Labels and equations can be typeset with LaTeX.
     </para>
 
-    &lfs78_checked;
+    &lfs79_checked;
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
     <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
diff --git a/pst/typesetting/biber.xml b/pst/typesetting/biber.xml
index 94415ed744..2a34bf7c50 100644
--- a/pst/typesetting/biber.xml
+++ b/pst/typesetting/biber.xml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
     <para>Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex, written in
     <application>Perl</application>, with full Unicode support.</para>
 
-    &lfs78_checked;
+    &lfs79_checked;
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
     <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
diff --git a/pst/typesetting/texlive.xml b/pst/typesetting/texlive.xml
index 9a1b7ebadc..25b59ce81b 100644
--- a/pst/typesetting/texlive.xml
+++ b/pst/typesetting/texlive.xml
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
     should start at <xref linkend="tex-path"/> so that the final commands to
     initialise the new installation will be found.</para>
 
-    &lfs78_checked;
+    &lfs79_checked;
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
     <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
diff --git a/pst/typesetting/xindy.xml b/pst/typesetting/xindy.xml
index 9d64431874..8ac3ae70c5 100644
--- a/pst/typesetting/xindy.xml
+++ b/pst/typesetting/xindy.xml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
       generate indexing information.
     </para>
 
-    &lfs78_checked;
+    &lfs79_checked;
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
     <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
     </para>
 
 <screen><userinput>export TEXARCH=$(uname -m | sed -e 's/i.86/i386/' -e 's/$/-linux/') &amp;&amp;
-
+sed -i "s/ grep -v '^;'/ awk NF/" make-rules/inputenc/Makefile.in &amp;&amp;
 ./configure --prefix=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;              \
             --bindir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/bin/$TEXARCH \
             --datarootdir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;         \
@@ -123,6 +123,16 @@ make LC_ALL=POSIX</userinput></screen>
     <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/tex-prefix.xml"/>
 
+    <para>
+      <parameter>sed -i "s/ grep -v '^;'/ awk NF/" ...</parameter>: The build
+      sorts files in latin{1..3} encodings to create latin.xdy, and unicode
+      versions of these to create utf8.xdy after using
+      <command>grep -v '^;'</command> to remove blank lines. With
+      <application>grep-2.23</application> any data not in the expected
+      encoding is treated as binary, resulting in a useless file. This
+      command uses an alternative way of removing blank lines.
+    </para>
+
     <para><parameter>--includedir=/usr/include</parameter>:
     This parameter ensures that the <filename>kpathsea</filename>
     headers from <xref linkend="texlive"/> will be found.</para>