Merge pull request #31821 from behrmann/news256

NEWS: more reformulations and fixlets

NEWS

@@ -66,8 +66,9 @@ CHANGES WITH 256 in spe:
 
         * A new 'systemd-vpick' binary has been added. It implements the new
           vpick protocol, where a .v directory may contain multiple files with
-          a version embedded in the name, and they may be ordered by version
-          and the newest one can be reliably selected.
+          a version, following the UAPI version format specification, embedded
+          in the file name. The files are ordered by version and the newest one
+          is selected.
 
           systemd-nspawn, systemd-dissect, and the RootDirectory=, RootImage=,
           ExtensionImages=, and ExtensionDirectories= settings for units now
@@ -75,8 +76,8 @@ CHANGES WITH 256 in spe:
           selected automatically if a "*.v/" directory is specified as the
           source.
 
-        * Credentials can now be made accessible to unprivileged users.
-          'systemd-creds --user --uid=<user>' will encrypt or decrypt a
+        * Credentials can now be made accessible to and used by unprivileged
+          users. 'systemd-creds --user --uid=<user>' will encrypt or decrypt a
           credential for a specific user.
 
         * With systemd-homed, it is now possible to log in and activate an
@@ -103,7 +104,8 @@ CHANGES WITH 256 in spe:
           systemd-homed, userdbctl, and homectl gained support for blob
           directories.
 
-        * New command-line tool 'importctl' is added with the following verbs:
+        * New command-line tool 'importctl' to download, import, and export
+          disk images via systemd-importd is added with the following verbs:
           pull-tar, pull-raw, import-tar, import-raw, import-fs, export-tar,
           export-raw, list-transfers, cancel-transfer.
 
@@ -295,8 +297,8 @@ CHANGES WITH 256 in spe:
         Systemd-boot and systemd-stub and Related Tools:
 
         * TPM 1.2 PCR measurement support has been removed from systemd-stub.
-          TPM 1.2 is obsolete and — due to the (by today's standards) weak
-          cryptographic algorithms it only supports — does not actually provide
+          TPM 1.2 is obsolete and – due to the (by today's standards) weak
+          cryptographic algorithms it only supports – does not actually provide
           the security benefits it's supposed to provide. Given that the rest
           of systemd's codebase never supported TPM 1.2, the support has now
           been removed from systemd-stub as well.
@@ -342,7 +344,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 256 in spe:
         * systemd-creds gained new options --user/--uid=.
 
         * 'systemctl edit --stdin' allows creation of unit files and drop-ins
-          with contents fed via standard input. This is useful when creating
+          with contents supplied via standard input. This is useful when creating
           configuration programmatically; the tool takes care of figuring out
           the file name, creating any directories, and reloading the manager
           afterwards.
@@ -400,7 +402,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 256 in spe:
         * systemd-repart gained new options --generate-fstab= and
           --generate-crypttab= to write the fstab and crypttab files.
 
-        * systemd-repart gained new option --private-key-source= to allow
+        * systemd-repart gained a new option --private-key-source= to allow
           using OpenSSL's "engines" or "providers" as the signing mechanism to
           use when creating verity signature partitions.
 

man/importctl.xml

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
   <refsect1>
     <title>Description</title>
 
-    <para><command>importctl</command> may be used to download, import export disk images via
+    <para><command>importctl</command> may be used to download, import, and export disk images via
     <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-importd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
 
     <para><command>importctl</command> operates both on block-level disk images (such as DDIs) as well as