Improved a few of the items.

NEWS

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
       is now output as "\\".  Rsync also uses your locale setting, which
       can make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable.
 
-    - If rsync received an empty file list when pulling files, it would
+    - If rsync received an empty file-list when pulling files, it would
       output a "nothing to do" message and exit with a 0 (success) exit
       status, even if the remote rsync returned an error (it did not do
       this under the same conditions when pushing files).  This was changed
@@ -25,10 +25,11 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
       rsyncd.conf file.
 
     - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified
-      that might have caused an infinite loop or perhaps a crash.
+      (rsync would either infinite loop or perhaps crash).
 
-    - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write
-      permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode.
+    - Fixed a case where the generator might try (and fail) to tweak the
+      write-permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode (this
+      only caused an annoying warning message).
 
     - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the
       basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i
@@ -72,7 +73,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
     - Avoid a timeout in the generator when the sender/receiver aren't
       handling the generator's checksum output quickly enough.
 
-    - Fixed the ommission of some directories in the delete processing when
+    - Fixed the omission of some directories in the delete processing when
       --relative (-R) was combined with a source path that had a trailing
       slash.
 
@@ -87,9 +88,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
       the buffers in readfd_unbuffered() to be too small to receive normal
       messages.  (This mainly affected Cygwin.)
 
-    - If a source filename ends with "..", treat it as if "../" had been
-      specified (so that we don't copy files to the parent dir of the
-      destination).
+    - If a source pathname ends with a filename of "..", treat it as if
+      "../" had been specified (so that we don't copy files to the parent
+      dir of the destination).
 
     - If --delete is combined with a file-listing rsync command (i.e. no
       transfer is happening), avoid outputting a warning that we couldn't
@@ -99,7 +100,8 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
       "deleting" messages are output before the statistics.
 
     - Improved one "if" in the deletion code that was only checking errno
-      for ENOTEMPTY when it should have also been checking for EEXIST.
+      for ENOTEMPTY when it should have also been checking for EEXIST (for
+      compatibility with OS variations).
 
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
@@ -119,21 +121,22 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
       the checksum data for a large file.
 
     - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include
-      some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user,
-      password mismatch, etc.).  (The client-visible message is unchanged.)
+      some information on why the authorization failed:  wrong user,
+      password mismatch, etc.  (The client-visible message is unchanged!)
 
     - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that
       it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we
       really did expect the socket to close).
 
     - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall
-      back to using syslog (and log an appropriate warning).  This is
-      better than what was typically a totally silent failure (since a
+      back to using syslog and log an appropriate warning.  This is better
+      than what was typically a totally silent (and fatal) failure (since a
       daemon is not usually run with the --no-detach option that was
       necessary to see the error on stderr).
 
     - The man pages now consistently refer to an rsync daemon as a "daemon"
-      to distinguish it from a server in a non-daemon transfer.
+      instead of a "server" (to distinguish it from the server process in a
+      non-daemon transfer).
 
     - Made a small change to the rrsync script (restricted rsync -- in the
       support dir) to make a read-only server reject all --remove-* options
@@ -142,22 +145,25 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
 
   INTERNAL:
 
-    - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") to enable isprint() to better
-      discern which filename characters need to be escaped in messages.
+    - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "").  This enables isprint() to
+      better discern which filename characters need to be escaped in
+      messages (which should result in fewer escaped characters in some
+      locales).
 
     - Improved the naming of the log-file open/reopen/close functions.
 
-    - Removed some protocol compatibility code that was only needed to help
+    - Removed some protocol-compatibility code that was only needed to help
       someone running a pre-release of 2.6.4.
 
   BUILD CHANGES:
 
-    - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS defines which prevented
-      rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support.
+    - Added configure option "--disable-locale" to disable any use of
+      setlocale() in the binary.
 
-    - Only define HAVE_REMSH if it is going to be set to 1.
+    - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS #defines which prevented
+      rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support.
 
-    - You can use --disable-locale to turn off any use of setlocale().
+    - Only #define HAVE_REMSH if it is going to be set to 1.
 
     - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they
       refuse to fix its broken handling of large files).
@@ -166,10 +172,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
       the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s
       presence based on the presence of the off64_t type.
 
-    - Configure no longer mentions the switch from rsh to ssh (for the
-      default remote shell) that occurred in 2.6.0.
+    - Configure no longer mentions the change in the default remote-shell
+      (from rsh to ssh) that occurred for the 2.6.0 release.
 
     - Some minor enhancements to the test scripts.
 
-    - Added a few new diffs to the patches dir, including a patch that
-      enables the optional copying of extended attributes.
+    - Added a few new *.diff files to the patches dir, including a patch
+      that enables the optional copying of extended attributes.