INN commit: trunk/doc/pod (news.pod)

[INN Commit]

    Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 @ 13:04:54
  Author: iulius
Revision: 8628

Improve the changelog wording.

compress does not have patent issues any longer.

Modified:
  trunk/doc/pod/news.pod

----------+
 news.pod |   14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Modified: news.pod
===================================================================
--- news.pod	2009-09-09 20:03:31 UTC (rev 8627)
+++ news.pod	2009-09-09 20:04:54 UTC (rev 8628)
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 inconsistent.  When the overview schema was modified without the overview
 database being rebuilt, wrong results could be returned for extra fields
 (especially a random portion of some other header).  The desired header
-name is now explicitly searched in the overview information.
+name is now explicitly searched for in the overview information.
 
 =item *
 
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@
 
 =item *
 
-When there is not enough space to write a CAF header, the timecaf storage
-manager now uses a larger blocksize.  On 32-bit systems, the CAF header
+When there is not enough space to write an entire CAF header, the timecaf
+storage manager now uses a larger blocksize.  On 32-bit systems, the CAF header
 is about 300 bytes, leaving about 200 bytes for the free bitmap index
 (the remaining of a 512-byte blocksize).  On 64-bit systems, the size
 of the CAF header could exceed 512 bytes, thus leaving no room for the
@@ -144,14 +144,16 @@
 
 =item *
 
-gzip(1) is now the default UUCP batcher in B<send-uucp>, instead of
-compress(1) whose algorithm has patent issues.
+gzip(1) is now the default UUCP batcher in B<send-uucp> instead of
+compress(1) because B<gzip> is more widely available than B<compress>,
+due to old patent issues.  Note that there is no impact on decompression
+as it is handled by B<rnews>.
 
 =item *
 
 B<cnfsheadconf> now uses the Perl core module C<Math::BigInt> rather
 than the deprecated F<bigint.pl> library.  When used without specifying
-a CNFS buffer, it properly displays the status of all CNFS buffers.
+a CNFS buffer, it now properly displays the status of all CNFS buffers.
 
 =back