diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 1807777f64..60aa96fb8a 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "24">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "26">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "08">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2017">
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "August 24th, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "August 26th, &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/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 902bb377d1..f27cacc93e 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -42,6 +42,16 @@
     </listitem>
 -->
 
+    <listitem>
+      <para>August 26th, 2017</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[dj] - Fixed build issue for Dovecot by explictly
+          linking to libtirpc.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>August 25th, 2017</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/server/mail/dovecot.xml b/server/mail/dovecot.xml
index b85e0f1f55..6203ad99a8 100644
--- a/server/mail/dovecot.xml
+++ b/server/mail/dovecot.xml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
       easily extensible with plugins.
     </para>
 
-    &lfs80_checked;
+    &lfs81_checked;
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
     <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
@@ -120,14 +120,18 @@ useradd -c "Dovecot login user" -d /dev/null -u 43 \
       commands:
     </para>
 
-<screen revision="sysv"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr                          \
+<screen revision="sysv"><userinput>CFLAGS+="-I/usr/include/tirpc" \
+LDFLAGS+="-ltirpc" \
+./configure --prefix=/usr                          \
             --sysconfdir=/etc                      \
             --localstatedir=/var                   \
             --docdir=/usr/share/doc/dovecot-&dovecot-version; \
             --disable-static &amp;&amp;
 make</userinput></screen>
 
-<screen revision="systemd"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr                          \
+<screen revision="systemd"><userinput>CFLAGS+="-I/usr/include/tirpc" \
+LDFLAGS+="-ltirpc" \
+./configure --prefix=/usr                          \
             --sysconfdir=/etc                      \
             --localstatedir=/var                   \
             --docdir=/usr/share/doc/dovecot-&dovecot-version; \
@@ -155,6 +159,9 @@ make</userinput></screen>
   <sect2 role="commands">
     <title>Command Explanations</title>
 
+    <para><command>CFLAGS+=...LDFLAGS+=...</command>: build with libtirpc
+    instead of the recently removed RPC code provided by GlibC.</para>
+
     <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
       href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>