diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 8bed9eecf4..7efd2c15d4 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "09">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "10">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "10">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2016">
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "October 9th &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "October 10th &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 b8848b5fd2..2eb23d8925 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -43,6 +43,21 @@
     </listitem>
 
 -->
+    <listitem>
+      <para>October 10th, 2016</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[renodr] - Update to thunderbird-45.4.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;8379">#8379</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[renodr] - Update to firefox-49.0.1.This seems to fix the
+          scrollbar issues as well, at least with GTK+-3.22.1. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;8330">#8330</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>October 9th, 2016</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 6e401a351b..8ac36c115f 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -685,7 +685,7 @@
 <!-- Chapter 43 -->
 <!ENTITY chromium-version             "53.0.2785.143">
 <!ENTITY seamonkey-version            "2.40">
-<!ENTITY firefox-version              "49.0">
+<!ENTITY firefox-version              "49.0.1">
 
 <!-- Chapter 44 -->
 <!ENTITY balsa-version                "2.5.2">
@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@
 <!ENTITY pidgin-version               "2.11.0">
 <!ENTITY rox-filer-version            "2.11">
 <!ENTITY rxvt-unicode-version         "9.22">
-<!ENTITY thunderbird-version          "45.3.0">
+<!ENTITY thunderbird-version          "45.4.0">
 <!ENTITY tigervnc-version             "1.7.0">
 <!ENTITY transmission-version         "2.92">
 <!ENTITY xarchiver-version            "0.5.4">
diff --git a/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml b/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml
index a00b5d70b7..1875b3e379 100644
--- a/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml
+++ b/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 
   <!ENTITY firefox-download-http "&mozilla-http;/firefox/releases/&firefox-version;/source/firefox-&firefox-version;.source.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY firefox-download-ftp " ">
-  <!ENTITY firefox-md5sum        "24f497ae93db299958771ccc93de1a47">
-  <!ENTITY firefox-size          "181 MB">
-  <!ENTITY firefox-buildsize     "4.4 GB (93 MB installed)">
+  <!ENTITY firefox-md5sum        "3ce01741b9eab6a2988b970127330dcd">
+  <!ENTITY firefox-size          "180 MB">
+  <!ENTITY firefox-buildsize     "4.5 GB (93 MB installed)">
   <!ENTITY firefox-time          "12 SBU (with parallelism=4 on a recent intel i7, much longer on lesser CPUs)">
 ]>
 
@@ -174,7 +174,8 @@ tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
       <xref linkend="wget"/>,
       <xref linkend="wireless_tools"/>,
       <ulink url="https://hunspell.github.io/">Hunspell</ulink>,
-      <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/liboauth/files/">liboauth</ulink>, and
+      <phrase revision="sysv"><ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/liboauth/files/">liboauth</ulink></phrase>
+      <phrase revision="systemd"><xref linkend="liboauth"/></phrase>,
       <ulink url="https://github.com/libproxy/libproxy">libproxy</ulink>,
       <ulink url="https://www.rust-lang.org/">Rust</ulink>,
       and (with the patch)
@@ -207,7 +208,7 @@ tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
 # uncommenting the next line and setting a valid number of CPU cores.
 #mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j1"
 
-# If you have installed DBus-Glib comment out this line:
+# If you have installed dbus-glib, comment out this line:
 ac_add_options --disable-dbus
 
 # If you have installed dbus-glib, and you have installed (or will install)
diff --git a/xsoft/other/thunderbird.xml b/xsoft/other/thunderbird.xml
index 3656db9d47..6103a37396 100644
--- a/xsoft/other/thunderbird.xml
+++ b/xsoft/other/thunderbird.xml
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@
   <!ENTITY thunderbird-download-http "&mozilla-http;/thunderbird/releases/&thunderbird-version;/source/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;.source.tar.xz">
 <!--  <!ENTITY thunderbird-download-ftp "&mozilla-ftp;/thunderbird/releases/&thunderbird-version;/source/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;.source.tar.xz">-->
   <!ENTITY thunderbird-download-ftp " ">
-  <!ENTITY thunderbird-md5sum            "3cdb5f1296ab3aabe0351e07b3572a4b">
+  <!ENTITY thunderbird-md5sum            "f90365e69f33efa8c2e69bbc6bb5b3a3">
   <!ENTITY thunderbird-size              "192 MB">
-  <!ENTITY thunderbird-buildsize         "3.7 GB (80 MB installed)">
-  <!ENTITY thunderbird-time              "13 SBU (with -j4, 37 SBU with -j1)">
+  <!ENTITY thunderbird-buildsize         "3.6 GB (80 MB installed)">
+  <!ENTITY thunderbird-time              "11 SBU (with -j4, 35 SBU with -j1)">
 ]>
 
 <sect1 id="thunderbird" xreflabel="Thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;">
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@
 # you want to use a smaller number of jobs:
 #mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j1"
 
-# If you have installed DBus-Glib comment out this line:
+# If you have installed dbus-glib, comment out this line:
 ac_add_options --disable-dbus
 
 # If you have installed wireless-tools comment out this line: