diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 6aa1c16bb1..8b1496f8e0 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "03">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "04">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "12">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2014">
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "December 3rd, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "December 4th, &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/genlib/libsigc++.xml b/general/genlib/libsigc++.xml
index 95a9fa4280..e0fbb054ea 100644
--- a/general/genlib/libsigc++.xml
+++ b/general/genlib/libsigc++.xml
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ make</userinput></screen>
 <screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
 
   </sect2>
-
+<!--
   <sect2 role="commands">
     <title>Command Explanations</title>
 
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ make</userinput></screen>
       which prevents <application>inkscape</application> compiling.
     </para>
 
-  </sect2>
+  </sect2>-->
 
   <sect2 role="content">
     <title>Contents</title>
diff --git a/general/graphlib/librsvg.xml b/general/graphlib/librsvg.xml
index 540990d8da..5c59a7363a 100644
--- a/general/graphlib/librsvg.xml
+++ b/general/graphlib/librsvg.xml
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 
   <!ENTITY librsvg-download-http "&gnome-download-http;/librsvg/2.40/librsvg-&librsvg-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY librsvg-download-ftp  "&gnome-download-ftp;/librsvg/2.40/librsvg-&librsvg-version;.tar.xz">
-  <!ENTITY librsvg-md5sum        "c2b044fccf415902a052d0e978e0ea60">
-  <!ENTITY librsvg-size          "500 KB">
+  <!ENTITY librsvg-md5sum        "259fd160b47ec11f3c27d7e18e507c99">
+  <!ENTITY librsvg-size          "504 KB">
   <!ENTITY librsvg-buildsize     "11 MB">
   <!ENTITY librsvg-time          "0.2 SBU">
 ]>
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 32acf6a884..02df486273 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,27 @@
 
 -->
 
+    <listitem>
+      <para>December 4th, 2014</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[fernando] - Comment out unused sed in libsigc++-2.4.0.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[fernando] - Update to ffmpeg-2.5. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;5905">#5905</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[fernando] - Update to librsvg-2.40.6. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;5904">#5904</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[fernando] - Update to xfsprogs-3.2.2. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;5903">#5903</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>December 3rd, 2014</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/multimedia/videoutils/ffmpeg.xml b/multimedia/videoutils/ffmpeg.xml
index 66673da183..feb60d2f33 100644
--- a/multimedia/videoutils/ffmpeg.xml
+++ b/multimedia/videoutils/ffmpeg.xml
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
 
   <!ENTITY ffmpeg-download-http "http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;.tar.bz2">
   <!ENTITY ffmpeg-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-md5sum        "7e2819c71484ffba1ba1a91dd5285643">
-  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-size          "7.1 MB">
-  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-buildsize     "130 MB (additional 867 MB for docs and 1905 MB to run the FATE tests)">
-  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-time          "3.6 SBU (additional 2.8 SBU for docs and 4.6 SBU to run the FATE tests, after sample files are downloaded)">
+  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-md5sum        "4346fe710cc6bdd981f6534d2420d1ab">
+  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-size          "7.4 MB">
+  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-buildsize     "133 MB (additional 879 MB for docs and 2289 MB to run the FATE tests)">
+  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-time          "1.1 SBU, using parallelism=4 (additional 1.0 SBU for docs and 4.8 SBU, to run the FATE tests, after sample files are downloaded)">
 ]>
 
 <sect1 id="ffmpeg" xreflabel="FFmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;">
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ find /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;/api -type d -exec chmod -c 0755 "{}"
       
     <para>
       Next, FATE is executed, with the commands (you obtain a number of tests
-      larger than 2000):
+      larger than 2300):
     </para>
 
 <screen><userinput>make fate SAMPLES=fate-suite/ | tee ../fate.log &amp;&amp;
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 020e74e229..7ce22c08e9 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 <!ENTITY parted-version               "3.2">
 <!ENTITY reiser-version               "3.6.24">
 <!ENTITY sshfs-fuse-version           "2.5">
-<!ENTITY xfsprogs-version             "3.2.1">
+<!ENTITY xfsprogs-version             "3.2.2">
 
 <!-- Chapter 6 -->
 <!ENTITY bluefish-version             "2.2.6">
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@
 <!ENTITY libjpeg-turbo-version        "1.3.1">
 <!ENTITY libmng-version               "2.0.2">
 <!ENTITY libpng-version               "1.6.15">
-<!ENTITY librsvg-version              "2.40.5">   <!-- Normally even minors
+<!ENTITY librsvg-version              "2.40.6">   <!-- Normally even minors
                                                        Required version in order to use
                                                        svg pixbuf loader. -->
 <!ENTITY libraw-version               "0.16.0">
@@ -689,7 +689,7 @@
 <!ENTITY pnmixer-version              "0.5.1">
 
 <!-- Chapter 40 -->
-<!ENTITY ffmpeg-version               "2.4.4">
+<!ENTITY ffmpeg-version               "2.5">
 <!ENTITY mplayer-version              "1.1.1">
 <!ENTITY xine-ui-version              "0.99.9">
 <!ENTITY transcode-version            "1.1.7">
diff --git a/postlfs/filesystems/xfsprogs.xml b/postlfs/filesystems/xfsprogs.xml
index dc72f6fed0..0e4b5f5937 100644
--- a/postlfs/filesystems/xfsprogs.xml
+++ b/postlfs/filesystems/xfsprogs.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 <!--  <!ENTITY xfsprogs-download-http "&sources-anduin-http;/x/xfsprogs-&xfsprogs-version;.tar.gz">-->
   <!ENTITY xfsprogs-download-http " ">
   <!ENTITY xfsprogs-download-ftp  "ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars/xfsprogs-&xfsprogs-version;.tar.gz">
-  <!ENTITY xfsprogs-md5sum        "5c6905932029c8f9207fe5a0a8aac24b">
+  <!ENTITY xfsprogs-md5sum        "b6b0db5e3ee71ceba26d0a5accbd0666">
   <!ENTITY xfsprogs-size          "1.5 MB">
   <!ENTITY xfsprogs-buildsize     "45 MB">
   <!ENTITY xfsprogs-time          "0.6 SBU">
@@ -94,8 +94,9 @@
 
 <screen role="root"><userinput>make PKG_DOC_DIR=/usr/share/doc/xfsprogs-&xfsprogs-version; install     &amp;&amp;
 make PKG_DOC_DIR=/usr/share/doc/xfsprogs-&xfsprogs-version; install-dev &amp;&amp;
-rm -rfv /lib/libhandle.{a,la,so}                          &amp;&amp;
-ln -sfv ../../lib/libhandle.so.1 /usr/lib/libhandle.so    &amp;&amp;
+rm -rfv /usr/lib/libhandle.a                               &amp;&amp;
+rm -rfv /lib/libhandle.{a,la,so}                           &amp;&amp;
+ln -sfv ../../lib/libhandle.so.1 /usr/lib/libhandle.so     &amp;&amp;
 sed -i "s@libdir='/lib@libdir='/usr/lib@g" /usr/lib/libhandle.la</userinput></screen>
 
   </sect2>
@@ -135,7 +136,7 @@ sed -i "s@libdir='/lib@libdir='/usr/lib@g" /usr/lib/libhandle.la</userinput></sc
         xfs_estimate, xfs_freeze, xfs_fsr, xfs_growfs, xfs_info, xfs_io,
         xfs_logprint, xfs_mdrestore, xfs_metadump, xfs_mkfile, xfs_ncheck,
         xfs_quota, xfs_repair, and xfs_rtcp</seg>
-        <seg>libhandle.{so,a}</seg>
+        <seg>libhandle.so</seg>
         <seg>/usr/include/xfs and /usr/share/doc/xfsprogs-&xfsprogs-version;</seg>
       </seglistitem>
     </segmentedlist>