diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 722742b7a9..cf0b9863bd 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "08">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "09">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "04">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2018">
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "April 8th, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "April 9th, &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/genutils/time.xml b/general/genutils/time.xml
index 42781c11cc..5111b1e450 100644
--- a/general/genutils/time.xml
+++ b/general/genutils/time.xml
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 
   <!ENTITY time-download-http "&gnu-http;/time/time-&time-version;.tar.gz">
   <!ENTITY time-download-ftp  "&gnu-ftp;/time/time-&time-version;.tar.gz">
-  <!ENTITY time-md5sum        "4e00dcb8c3ab11c7cf5a0d698828ac96">
-  <!ENTITY time-size          "533 KB">
-  <!ENTITY time-buildsize     "3.9 MB (with tests)">
+  <!ENTITY time-md5sum        "d2356e0fe1c0b85285d83c6b2ad51b5f">
+  <!ENTITY time-size          "584 KB">
+  <!ENTITY time-buildsize     "4.0 MB (with tests)">
   <!ENTITY time-time          "0.1 SBU (with tests)">
 ]>
 
diff --git a/general/prog/vala.xml b/general/prog/vala.xml
index ca1623eca5..cc9f11af93 100644
--- a/general/prog/vala.xml
+++ b/general/prog/vala.xml
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
 
   <!ENTITY vala-download-http "&gnome-download-http;/vala/&vala-major-version;/vala-&vala-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY vala-download-ftp  "&gnome-download-ftp;/vala/&vala-major-version;/vala-&vala-version;.tar.xz">
-  <!ENTITY vala-md5sum        "e7d05683bcac0306fc8d7c875eb3fef1">
+  <!ENTITY vala-md5sum        "734a14b7dcffa8628d7e22742c513c0a">
   <!ENTITY vala-size          "3.2 MB">
-  <!ENTITY vala-buildsize     "142 MB (including tests)">
-  <!ENTITY vala-time          "1.1 SBU (add 0.6 SBU for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY vala-buildsize     "110 MB (add 2 MB for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY vala-time          "0.4 SBU (Using parallelism=4; add 0.5 SBU for tests)">
 ]>
 
 <sect1 id="vala" xreflabel="Vala-&vala-version;">
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 67ff04e7e7..dfc5b3d1d1 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -45,7 +45,26 @@
       <para>April 7, 2018</para>
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[timtas] - Update to alsa-1.1.6 (alsa-lib, alsa-plugins, alsa-utils,alsa-tools, ALSA OSS). Fixes
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to vala-0.40.3. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;10638">#10638</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to zsh-5.5. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;10637">#10637</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to time-1.9. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;10639">#10639</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+      <para>April 7, 2018</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[timtas] - Update to alsa-1.1.6 (alsa-lib, 
+          alsa-plugins, alsa-utils,alsa-tools, ALSA OSS). Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;10623">#10623</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 8ac63c8f54..559ee65fec 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
 <!-- Chapter 7 -->
 <!ENTITY dash-version                 "0.5.9.1">
 <!ENTITY tcsh-version                 "6.20.00">
-<!ENTITY zsh-version                  "5.4.2">
+<!ENTITY zsh-version                  "5.5">
 
 <!-- Chapter 8 Virtualization -->
 <!ENTITY qemu-version                 "2.11.1">
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY telepathy-logger-version     "0.8.2">
 <!ENTITY telepathy-mission-control-version "5.16.4">
 <!ENTITY tidy-html5-version           "5.4.0">
-<!ENTITY time-version                 "1.8">
+<!ENTITY time-version                 "1.9">
 <!ENTITY tree-version                 "1.7.0">
 <!ENTITY unixodbc-version             "2.3.6">
 <!ENTITY xdg-user-dirs-version        "0.17">
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY tcl-version                  "8.6.8">
 <!ENTITY tk-version                   "8.6.8">
 <!ENTITY vala-major-version           "0.40">  <!-- even minors only -->
-<!ENTITY vala-version                 "&vala-major-version;.2">
+<!ENTITY vala-version                 "&vala-major-version;.3">
 <!ENTITY valgrind-version             "3.13.0">
 <!ENTITY yasm-version                 "1.3.0">
 
diff --git a/postlfs/shells/zsh.xml b/postlfs/shells/zsh.xml
index 2965c51c73..755d53a953 100644
--- a/postlfs/shells/zsh.xml
+++ b/postlfs/shells/zsh.xml
@@ -6,12 +6,12 @@
 
   <!ENTITY zsh-download-http "http://www.zsh.org/pub/zsh-&zsh-version;.tar.gz">
   <!ENTITY zsh-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY zsh-md5sum        "dfe156fd69b0d8d1745ecf6d6e02e047">
-  <!ENTITY zsh-size          "4.3 MB">
-  <!ENTITY zsh-buildsize     "44 MB (includes documentation and tests)">
-  <!ENTITY zsh-time          "1.0 SBU (includes documentation and tests)">
+  <!ENTITY zsh-md5sum        "2430c85bd128c59f5c0806ef00d3ea8d">
+  <!ENTITY zsh-size          "4.4 MB">
+  <!ENTITY zsh-buildsize     "45 MB (includes documentation and tests)">
+  <!ENTITY zsh-time          "1.2 SBU (includes documentation and tests)">
 
-  <!ENTITY zsh-doc-md5sum    "e718bbcd663992ba33c01d4f8a289fc5">
+  <!ENTITY zsh-doc-md5sum    "0adfbb6a4eb3e03f4c23c1cc3f71f1f5">
   <!ENTITY zsh-doc-size      "3.1 MB">
 ]>