diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 843113458c..825c4d488c 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ $LastChangedBy$
 $Date$
 -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "07">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "13">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "12">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2007">
 <!ENTITY version      "svn-&year;&month;&day;">
@@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ $Date$
 <!ENTITY libfame-version              "0.9.1">
 <!ENTITY speex-version                "1.0.5">
 <!ENTITY id3lib-version               "3.8.3">
-<!ENTITY flac-version                 "1.1.4">
+<!ENTITY flac-version                 "1.2.1">
 <!ENTITY libdvdcss-version            "1.2.9">
 <!ENTITY libdvdread-version           "0.9.7">
 <!ENTITY libdv-version                "1.0.0">
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 9f9331847a..1249798e40 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -40,6 +40,14 @@
     </listitem>
 
 -->
+    <listitem>
+      <para>December 13th, 2007</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ag] - Updated to Flac-1.2.1.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
       <para>December 7th, 2007</para>
@@ -49,7 +57,6 @@
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
-
     
     <listitem>
       <para>November 22nd, 2007</para>
diff --git a/multimedia/libdriv/flac.xml b/multimedia/libdriv/flac.xml
index 1baac74b51..1ec632178b 100644
--- a/multimedia/libdriv/flac.xml
+++ b/multimedia/libdriv/flac.xml
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
 
   <!ENTITY flac-download-http "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/flac/flac-&flac-version;.tar.gz">
   <!ENTITY flac-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY flac-md5sum        "3958cbd5b6ed8c14966792538e44223b">
-  <!ENTITY flac-size          "1.8 MB">
-  <!ENTITY flac-buildsize     "136 MB (includes running the test suite)">
-  <!ENTITY flac-time          "0.6 SBU (additional 1.8 SBU to run the test suite)">
+  <!ENTITY flac-md5sum        "153c8b15a54da428d1f0fadc756c22c7">
+  <!ENTITY flac-size          "1.9 MB">
+  <!ENTITY flac-buildsize     "205 MB (includes running the test suite)">
+  <!ENTITY flac-time          "0.6 SBU (additional 8 SBU to run the test suite)">
 ]>
 
 <sect1 id="flac" xreflabel="FLAC-&flac-version;">
@@ -55,14 +55,6 @@
       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
 
-    <!-- <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
-    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
-      <listitem>
-        <para>Required patch: <ulink
-        url="&patch-root;/flac-&flac-version;-xmms_plugin_fix-1.patch"/></para>
-      </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist> -->
-
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">FLAC Dependencies</bridgehead>
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
@@ -84,18 +76,9 @@
     <para>Install <application>FLAC</application> by running the
     following commands:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/^FLaC__INLINE/static\n&amp;/' src/libFLAC/md5.c &amp;&amp;
-./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-thorough-tests &amp;&amp;
+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-thorough-tests &amp;&amp;
 make</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>If you have <application>Valgrind</application> version 3.0.0 or
-    higher installed and you plan on running the test suites after passing the
-    <option>--enable-valgrind-testing</option> parameter to
-    <command>configure</command>, you need to issue the following command to
-    change some test scripts:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>sed -i -e "s/logfile-fd/log-fd/" `grep -lr logfile-fd test/*sh`</userinput></screen>
-
     <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>. Note that
     if you passed the <option>--enable-exhaustive-tests</option> and
     <option>--enable-valgrind-testing</option> parameters to
@@ -112,15 +95,6 @@ make</userinput></screen>
   <sect2 role="commands">
     <title>Command Explanations</title>
 
-    <!-- <para><command>LIBS=-lm ./configure -prefix=/usr</command>:
-    <filename class="libraryfile">libFLAC</filename> uses a function from the math
-    library but is not linked with <filename class="libraryfile">libm</filename>.
-    Passing the environment variable to <command>configure</command> satisfies
-    this dependency.</para> -->
-
-    <para><command>sed -i 's/.../' src/libFLAC/md5.c</command>: This command
-    is used so that the byteswap symbol is not global.</para>
-
     <para><parameter>--disable-thorough-tests</parameter>: This parameter is
     used so that the test suite will complete in a reasonable amount of time.
     Remove it if you desire more extensive tests.</para>