diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index b34867e700..cd96fe3038 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "02">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "03">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "08">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2018">
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "August 2nd, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "August 3rd, &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 0c05429ba6..4d21d55b4e 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,18 @@
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
 -->
+    <listitem>
+      <para>August 3rd, 2018</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Fix postfix to build against Berkeley DB-18. Minimally
+          tested, but without grokking what changed from DB-6 to DB-18 there
+          may possibly be breakage for some usage.
+          Addresses <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;10984">#10984</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>August 2nd, 2018</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/server/mail/postfix.xml b/server/mail/postfix.xml
index 04ae91b6dc..5f4d5bfc00 100644
--- a/server/mail/postfix.xml
+++ b/server/mail/postfix.xml
@@ -153,6 +153,15 @@ chown -v postfix:postfix /var/mail</userinput></screen>
         For more details read the readme files.
       </para>
 
+       <para>
+         The current version of	<xref linkend="db"/> is not recognised by a
+         hard-coded test for known versions. To build with this version use the
+         following sed:
+      </para>
+
+<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/DB_VERSION_MAJOR == 6 .*||/DB_VERSION_MAJOR &gt; 4 ||/' \
+  src/util/dict_db.c</userinput></screen>
+
       <sect4>
         <title>Cyrus-SASL</title>