diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 8e3b65f70d..2598638160 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "01">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "02">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "01">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2015">
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "January 1st, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "January 2nd, &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/mercurial.xml b/general/prog/mercurial.xml
index 64cf40a1ec..8301df6434 100644
--- a/general/prog/mercurial.xml
+++ b/general/prog/mercurial.xml
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
 
   <!ENTITY mercurial-download-http "http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/mercurial-&mercurial-version;.tar.gz">
   <!ENTITY mercurial-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY mercurial-md5sum        "ca6d1a0b0fd255fb1b9fb3fa46a856b8">
+  <!ENTITY mercurial-md5sum        "4e9447b538a101138e257d5d774bcbfb">
   <!ENTITY mercurial-size          "3.9 MB">
   <!ENTITY mercurial-buildsize     "44 MB (additional 255 MB for the tests and 2.2 MB for docs generation)">
-  <!ENTITY mercurial-time          "less than 0.1 SBU (additional 2.1 SBU for tests, using parallelism=8)">
+  <!ENTITY mercurial-time          "less than 0.1 SBU (additional 1.9 SBU for tests, using parallelism=8)">
 ]>
 
 <sect1 id="mercurial" xreflabel="Mercurial-&mercurial-version;">
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 0342690d98..a6572f5cad 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,16 @@
 
 -->
 
+    <listitem>
+      <para>January 2nd, 2015</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[fernando] - Update to mercurial-3.2.4. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;5997">#5997</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>January 1st, 2015</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index f5567d9689..dd1ec24b7e 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@
 <!ENTITY librep-version               "0.92.4">
 <!ENTITY llvm-version                 "3.5.0">
 <!ENTITY lua-version                  "5.2.3">
-<!ENTITY mercurial-version            "3.2.3">
+<!ENTITY mercurial-version            "3.2.4">
 <!ENTITY nasm-version                 "2.11.06">
 <!ENTITY npapi-sdk-version            "0.27.2">
 <!ENTITY php-version                  "5.6.4">
diff --git a/xsoft/other/rxvt-unicode.xml b/xsoft/other/rxvt-unicode.xml
index 754d349199..99439e5e46 100644
--- a/xsoft/other/rxvt-unicode.xml
+++ b/xsoft/other/rxvt-unicode.xml
@@ -173,7 +173,9 @@ update-desktop-database -q</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>For that, you need <xref linkend="desktop-file-utils"/> and at least
     one of <xref linkend="gnome-icon-theme"/>, <xref linkend="oxygen-icons"/>
-    and <xref linkend="lxde-icon-theme"/></para>
+    and <xref linkend="lxde-icon-theme"/>. Uncomment the line with
+    <quote>StartupNotify=true</quote> if <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>
+    is installed.</para>
 
   </sect2>