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+kmod 32
+=======
+
+- Improvements
+
+	- Use any hash algo known by kernel/openssl instead of keep needing
+	  to update the mapping
+
+	- Teach kmod to load modprobe.d/depmod.d configuration from ${prefix}/lib
+	  and allow it to be overriden during build with --with-distconfdir=DIR
+
+	- Make kernel modules directory configurable. This allows distro to
+	  make kmod use only files from /usr regardless of having a compat
+	  symlink in place.
+
+	- Install kmod.pc containing the features selected at build time.
+
+	- Install all tools and symlinks by default. Previously kmod relied on
+	  distro packaging to set up the symlinks in place like modprobe,
+	  depmod, lsmod, etc. Now those symlinks are created by kmod itself
+	  and they are always placed in $bindir.
+
+- Bug Fixes
+
+	- Fix warnings due to -Walloc-size
+
+- Others
+
+	- Drop python bindings. Those were not update in ages and not compatible
+	  with latest python releases.
+
+	- Cleanup test infra, dropping what was not used anymore
+
+	- Drop experimental tools `kmod insert` / `kmod remove`. Building those
+	  was protected by a configure option never set by distros. They also
+	  didn't gain enough traction to replace the older interfaces via
+	  modprobe/insmod/rmmod.
+
+kmod 31
+=======
+
+- Improvements
+
+	- Allow passing a path to modprobe so the module is loaded from
+	  anywhere from the filesystem, but still handling the module
+	  dependencies recorded in the indexes. This is mostly intended for kernel
+	  developers to speedup testing their kernel modules without having to load the
+	  dependencies manually or override the module in /usr/lib/modules/.
+	  Now it's possible to do:
+
+		# modprobe ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko
+
+	  As long as the dependencies didn't change, this should do the right thing
+
+	- Use in-kernel decompression if available. This will check the runtime support
+	  in the kernel for decompressing modules and use it through finit_module().
+	  Previously kmod would fallback to the older init_module() when using
+	  compressed modules since there wasn't a way to instruct the kernel to
+	  uncompress it on load or check if the kernel supported it or not.
+	  This requires a recent kernel (>= 6.4) to have that support and
+	  in-kernel decompression properly working in the kernel.
+
+	- Make modprobe fallback to syslog when stderr is not available, as was
+	  documented in the man page, but not implemented
+
+	- Better explaing `modprobe -r` and how it differentiates from rmmod
+
+	- depmod learned a `-o <dir>` option to allow using a separate output
+	  directory. With this, it's possible to split the output files from
+	  the ones used as input from the kernel build system
+
+	- Add compat with glibc >= 2.32.9000 that dropped __xstat
+
+	- Improve testsuite to stop skipping tests when sysconfdir is something
+	  other than /etc
+
+	- Build system improvements and updates
+
+	- Change a few return codes from -ENOENT to -ENODATA to avoid confusing output
+	  in depmod when the module itself lacks a particular ELF section due to e.g.
+	  CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=n in the kernel.
+
+
+- Bug Fixes
+
+	- Fix testsuite using uninitialized memory when testing module removal
+	  with --wait
+
+	- Fix testsuite not correctly overriding the stat syscall on 32-bit
+	  platforms. For most architectures this was harmless, but for MIPS it
+	  was causing some tests to fail.
+
+	- Fix handling unknown signature algorithm
+
+	- Fix linking with a static liblzma, libzstd or zlib
+
+	- Fix memory leak when removing module holders
+
+	- Fix out-of-bounds access when using very long paths as argument to rmmod
+
+	- Fix warnings reported by UBSan
+
+kmod 30
+=======
+
+- Improvements
+	- Stop adding duplicate information on modules.builtin.alias.bin, just use
+	  the modules.builtin.bin index
+
+	- Speedup depmod, particularly under qemu with emulated arch, by
+	  avoiding a lot of open/read/close of modules.alias.bin. On an
+	  emulated ARM rootfs, depmod with only 2 modules was taking ~32s
+	  vs ~0.07s now.
+
+	- Add kmod_module_new_from_name_lookup() which allows doing a lookup by
+	  module name, without considering the aliases. Other than that search
+	  order is similar to kmod_module_new_from_lookup().
+
+	- modinfo learned the --modname option to explicitely show information
+	  about the module, even if there is an alias with the same name. This
+	  allows showing information about e.g. kernel/lib/crc32.ko, even if
+	  kernel also exports a crc32 alias in modules.alias:
+
+		alias crc32 crc32_pclmul
+		alias crc32 crc32_generic
+
+	  Same behavior will be used to other modules and to aliases provided
+	  by user/distro.
+
+	- depmod.conf learned a new "excludedir" directive so distro/user can
+	  configure more directories to be excluded from its search, besides
+	  the hardcoded values "build" and "source".
+
+	- Better group modprobe options on help output under "Management, Query and General".
+
+	- modprobe learned a --wait <MSEC> option to be used together with -r
+	  when removing a module. This allows modprobe to keep trying the
+	  removal if it fails because the module is still in use. An exponential backoff
+	  time is used for further retries.
+
+	  The wait behavior provided by the kernel when not passing O_NONBLOCK
+	  to delete_module() was removed in v3.13 due to not be used and the
+	  consequences of having to support it in the kernel. However there may
+	  be some users, particularly on testsuites for individual susbsystems, that
+	  would want that. So provide a userspace implementation inside modprobe for
+	  such users. "rmmod" doesn't have a --wait as it remains a bare minimal over
+	  the API provided by the kernel. In future the --wait behavior can be added
+	  to libkmod for testsuites not exec'ing modprobe for module removal.
+
+	- kmod_module_remove_module() learned a new flag to silence output when
+	  caller wants to handle them - this is particularly important for the
+	  --wait flag to modprobe, as it's not desired to keep seeing error messages
+	  while waiting for the module to be unused.
+
+	- Add SM3 hash algo support to modinfo output, as already available in the kernel.
+
+- Bug Fixes
+	- Fix modinfo output when showing information for a .ko module when running
+	  on a kernel that has that module as builtin.
+
+	- Fix kmod_module_new_from_lookup() returning > 0 rather than 0
+	  when it matches an alias.
+
+	- Fix modinfo segfault when module doesn't exist.
+
+	- Add missing function in the html documentation: kmod_get_dirname().
+
+	- Fix modprobe incorrectly handling number of arguments when prepending values from
+	  MODPROBE_OPTIONS environment variable.
+
+	- Fix modprobe -r --remove-dependencies and since "dependencies" was a
+	  misnomer, add the preferred argument option: "--remove-holders". This
+	  is the same name used by the kernel. It allows users to also remove
+	  other modules holding the one that is being removed.
+
+	- Fix off-by-one in max module name length in depmod.
+
+- Infra/internal
+	- Start some changes in the out-of-tree test modules in kmod so they are useful
+	  for being really inserted in the kernel rather than relying on kmod's mock
+	  interface. This helps manual testing and may be used to exercise to test
+	  changes in the kernel.
+
+kmod 29
+=======
+
+- Improvements
+	- Add support to use /usr/local as a place for configuration files. This makes it easier
+	  to install locally without overriding distro files.
+
+- Bug fixes
+	- Fix `modinfo -F` when module is builtin: when we asked by a specific field from modinfo,
+	  it was not working correctly if the module was builtin
+
+	- Documentation fixes on precedence order of /etc and /run: the correct order is
+	  /etc/modprobe.d, /run/modprobe.d, /lib/modprobe.d
+
+	- Fix the priority order that we use for searching configuration files. The
+	  correct one is /etc, /run, /usr/local/lib, /lib, for both modprobe.d
+	  and depmo.d
+
+	- Fix kernel command line parsing when there are quotes present. Grub
+	  mangles the command line and changes it from 'module.option="val with
+	  spaces"' to '"module.option=val with spaces"'. Although this is weird
+	  behavior and grub could have been fixed, the kernel understands it
+	  correctly for builtin modules. So change libkmod to also parse it
+	  correctly. This also brings another hidden behavior from the kernel:
+	  newline in the kernel command line is also allowed and can be used to
+	  separate options.
+
+	- Fix a memory leak, overflow and double free on error path
+
+	- Fix documentation for return value from kmod_module_get_info(): we
+	  return the number of entries we added to the list
+
+	- Fix output of modules.builtin.alias.bin index: we were writing an empty file due to
+	  the misuse of kmod_module_get_info()
+
+- Infra/internal
+	- Retire integration with semaphoreci
+
+	- Declare the github mirror also as an official upstream source: now besides accepting
+	  patches via mailing list, PRs on github are also acceptable
+
+	- Misc improvements to testsuite, so we can use it reliably regardless
+	  of the configuration used: now tests will skip if we don't have the
+	  build dependencies)
+
+kmod 28
+=======
+
+- Improvements
+	- Add Zstandard to the supported compression formats using libzstd
+	  (pass --with-zstd to configure)
+
+- Bug fixes
+	- Ignore ill-formed kernel command line, e.g. with "ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0"
+	  option in it
+	- Fix some memory leaks
+	- Fix 0-length builtin.alias.bin: it needs at least the index header
+
+kmod 27
+=======
+
+- Improvements
+	- Link to libcrypto rather than requiring openssl
+
+	- Print a better error message when kernel doesn't support module unload
+
+	- Use PKCS#7 instead of CMS for parsing module signature to be
+	  compatible with LibreSSL and OpenSSL < 1.1.0
+
+	- Teach modinfo to parse modules.builtin.modinfo. When using Linux kernel
+	  >= v5.2-rc1 it's possible to get module information from this new file. Now
+	  modinfo is able to show it instead of an error message that the module is
+	  built-in:
+
+	  Before:
+	  $ modinfo ext4
+	  modinfo: ERROR: Module ext4 not found.
+
+	  After:
+	  $ modinfo ext4
+	  name:           ext4
+	  filename:       (builtin)
+	  softdep:        pre: crc32c
+	  license:        GPL
+	  description:    Fourth Extended Filesystem
+	  author:         Remy Card, Stephen Tweedie, Andrew Morton, Andreas Dilger, Theodore Ts'o and others
+	  alias:          fs-ext4
+	  alias:          ext3
+	  alias:          fs-ext3
+	  alias:          ext2
+	  alias:          fs-ext2
+
+- Bug fixes
+	- Do not link python bindings with libpython to be compatible with
+	  python3.8
+
+	- Fix module removal with `modprobe -r` when a dependency is built-in.
+	  Now it properly ignores them and proceed with removal of other
+	  dependencies
+
+	- Fix propagation of return code from install/remove commands to the
+	  the probe function. The return values of kmod_module_probe_insert_module()
+	  have very specific meanings, do not confuse the caller by return codes
+	  from system()
+
+	- Fix softdep config parsing leading to buffer overflow
+
+kmod 26
+=======
+
+- Improvements
+	- Add more error-checking in library functions and remove warnings on newer
+	  toolchains
+
+	- Depmod now handles parallel invoctions better by protecting the temporary
+	  files being used
+
+	- Improvements to testsuite and added tests to check the our behavior
+	  regardless of the features enabled in the kernel, or libraries we link to
+
+	- Teach the --show-exports option to modprobe. This works similarly to
+	  --show-modversions, but it reports the exported symbols from that module.
+	  Under the hood this reads the .symtab and .strtab section rather than
+	  __versions so it shows useful data even if kernel is configured without
+	  modversions (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS)
+
+	- Teach pkcs7 parsing to modinfo by using openssl. This allows modinfo to
+	  correctly parse the signature appended to a module by the kernel build
+	  system when configured with CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL, or when externally
+	  signed by the distro. Traditionally modules were signed and a struct
+	  was appended together with the signature to the end of the module.
+	  This has changed on the kernel for pkcs#7 and now the structure isn't
+	  filled out with useful information.  So we have to parse the signature
+	  block in order to return useful data to the user.
+
+	  If kmod is linked with openssl we parse the signature and return the
+	  fields as we do for other signatures. An example of the relevant part
+	  on the output of modinfo is below:
+
+	  Before:
+		  sig_id:         PKCS#7
+		  signer:
+		  sig_key:
+		  sig_hashalgo:   md4
+	  After:
+		  sig_id:         PKCS#7
+		  signer:         Fedora kernel signing key
+		  sig_key:        51:C4:0C:6D:7E:A5:6C:D8:8F:B4:3A:DF:91:78:4F:18:BC:D5:E4:C5
+		  sig_hashalgo:   sha256
+
+	  If kmod is not linked to openssl we just start printing "unknonwn" in the
+	  sig_hashalgo field rather than the bogus value.
+
+
+kmod 25
+=======
+
+- Improvements
+	- Add module signature to modinfo output
+
+	- Add support for external directories in depmod: now there's a new
+	  "external" keyword parsed by depmod when calculating the dependencies.
+	  It allows to add modules to other directories which are not relative
+	  to where the modules are commonly installed.  This results in
+	  modules.dep and friends now understanding absolute paths rather than
+	  relative paths only. For more information see depmod.d(1).
+
+	- Add support for CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS
+
+	- Add missing documentation references in man pages
+
+	- Handle the case in which module has a .TOC symbol already while
+	  calculating dependencies
+
+	- Improve testsuite and allow to use mkosi to run testsuite in different
+	  distros
+
+kmod 24
+=======
+
+- Improvements:
+	- Add more information on dependency loop
+
+	- Sanitize use of strcpy and allow to grow from small strings on stack
+	  (common case) to bigger strings on heap when needed
+
+- Bug fixes
+	- Fix wrong dependency loops being reported by depmod
+
+	- Fix crashes when reporting dependency loops
+
+	- Fix parsing kernel command line containing quotes
+
+	- Fix leaks on error paths
+
+kmod 23
+=======
+
+- Improvements:
+	- Don't add comment to modules.devname if it would otherwise be empty
+	  to play nice with tools detecting empty files
+
+	- Allow building with BSD sed, that doesn't have -E flag
+
+	- Ignore .TOC. symbols in depmod parsing as it's for PPC64 the
+	  equivalent of _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_
+
+	- Teach modinfo about PKCS#7 module signatures: it doesn't add any
+	  other info besides telling the user the module is signed since
+	  kernel doesn't add other info on the module section
+
+- Bug fixes
+
+	- Fix -s and -p compat options to insmod triggering force flag
+
+	- Fix long lines from /proc/modules not being handled correctly by
+	  kmod_module_new_from_loaded() and kmod_module_get_size() and several
+	  other library functions that use them
+
+	- Fix crash on modinfo while checking for available signature of
+	  unknown type
+
+	- Fix documentation generation with gtk-doc
+
+kmod 22
+=======
+
+- Tools:
+	- Change defaul log level for tools to WARNING rather than ERROR and update
+	  some log levels for current messages
+
+	- depmod doesn't fallback to uname if a bad version is passed in the command
+	  line anymore. We just exit with an error.
+
+	- insmod was taught the -f flag, just like in modprobe. It was previously
+	  silently ignoring it.
+
+- libkmod
+	- New kmod_get_dirname() API to get the module directory set in the
+	  context
+
+- Bug fixes:
+	- Fix return code in error path of kmod_module_insert_module(). We were
+	  previously returning ENOSYS rather than ENOENT.
+
+kmod 21
+=======
+
+- New features:
+	- kmod tool started to learn the "insert" and "remove" commands that
+	  are the simplified versions of the older modprobe tool.  These
+	  commands are still work in progress so they are hidden behind a
+	  --enable-experimental flag during build.  It should not be enabled
+	  unless you know what you're doing.
+	- kmod tool now prints the relevant configuration options it was built
+	  with when the "--version" argument is passed. This helps to mitigate
+	  problems for example when the user is trying to load a compressed
+	  module but kmod was built without support for the compression method.
+
+- Improvements to testsuite:
+	- Cache built modules so it is easier to run "make check" on build
+	  servers by distro maintainers. If kmod is configured with
+	  --disable-test-modules the modules from cache will be used by
+	  "make check". No changes to the tests are needed and all of them
+	  can run fine.
+
+kmod 20
+=======
+- Bug fixes:
+	- Handle bogus values from ELF, making sure they don't overflow while
+	  parsing the file
+	- Fix leak in depmod when -b flag is passed multiple times
+	- Multiple minor fixes from static analysis by coverity and
+	  clang-analyze
+	- Fix race between loading modules and checking if it's loaded in the
+	  kernel
+
+- New features:
+	- There's a change in behavior regarding builtin modules: we now only
+	  consider as builtin those that are present in modules.builtin index.
+	  Previously we were also checking the presence of
+	  /sys/module/<module-name>, but this is racy and only modules that
+	  contain parameters are the ones creating a directory in sysfs.
+
+	  Now some commands will start to fail, e.g. "modprobe vt". Since vt
+	  can't be compiled as a module it's not present in modules.builtin
+	  index. Previously we would report at as builtin, but now we fail
+	  because we couldn't find the module.
+
+- Improvements:
+	- Integration of gcov into the build. Currently libkmod is at ~70%
+	  covered and tools at ~50% by tests in the testsuite. Utility
+	  functions and structures in shared have more than 90% of coverage.
+	- Upload build to coverity
+
+- Improvements to testsuite:
+	- Fix parsing return codes of init_module() calls
+	- Add tests for utility functions in shared/
+	- Add tests for kmod_module_remove_module()
+	- Add playground, in which our own modules are compiled
+	- Port all tests to use modules from module-playground instead of
+	  copying prebuilt modules to the repository
+	- Properly handle binaries that exit with no output
+	- Besides comparing the output of commands, allow to copy to
+	  stdout/stderr
+
+kmod 19
+=======
+
+- Bug fixes:
+	- Fix missing CLOEXEC in library
+	- Fix error message while opening kmod's index
+
+- New features:
+	- Add kmod(8) man page
+	- Allow to build with libc's without be32toh()
+	- Move code around separating common code and data structures into a
+	  shared directory. This allows to share more code between library and
+	  tools, making the binary size of tools smaller.
+	- Clarify tools vs library licenses
+	- static-nodes: when writing in tmpfiles format, indicate that
+	  creation of static nodes should only happen at boot. This is used and
+	  required by systemd-217+.
+
+- Improvements to testsuite:
+	- Add tests for newly created shared/ code
+	- Improve how tests are declared so there's less boilerplate code for
+	  each test.
+
+kmod 18
+=======
+
+- Bug fixes:
+	- Fix leaks in error paths
+	- Fix use-after-free in hash implementation causing a wrong index to be
+	  generated by depmod with out-of-tree modules
+
+- New features:
+	- Calling depmod with modules creating a dependency loop will now make
+	  depmod return an error and not update the indexes. This is to protect
+	  the current index not being overridden by another index that may cause
+	  a boot failure, depending on the buggy module. It's a necessary
+	  change in behavior regarding previous kmod releases and
+	  module-init-tools. The error message was also improved to output
+	  the modules that caused the dependency cycle.
+
+- Improvements to testsuite:
+	- Fix and improve expected-fail test
+	- Add tests for hashmap implementation
+
+kmod 17
+=======
+
+- Bug fixes:
+	- Fix matching a "." in kernel cmdline, making garbage in the command
+	  line be parsed as kmod options
+	- Fix man pages to clarify we don't fallback to parsing modules.dep
+	  but instead we depend on modules.dep.bin (generated by depmod) to
+	  be present
+	- Fix ELF parsing on 32 bit systems assigning the wrong class.
+	- Fix partial matches of search directives in depmod. Previously having
+	  a line in depmod.conf such as "search foo foobar built-in" would cause
+	  unpretictable results because foo is a partial match of foobar as well.
+	- Fix unaligned access in modinfo when getting the signature from a
+	  module
+	- Make sure softdeps are treated as optional dependencies
+
+- New features:
+	- Accept special files given to "-C" switch in modprobe. This way it's
+	  possible to skip system configuration with "modprobe -C /dev/null"
+	- Do not require xsltproc on released tarballs
+	- Don't use Werror anymore
+	- Add experimental python bindings, merged from python-kmod repository
+	  (https://github.com/agrover/python-kmod)
+	- Parse softdeps exported by the kernel as
+	  /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.softdep
+
+- Improvements to testsuite:
+	- Check the list of loaded modules after a test
+
+kmod 16
+=======
+
+- Bug fixes:
+	- Fix usage of readdir_r()
+	- Add some missing checks for memory allocation errors
+
+- New features:
+	- Remove option from libkmod to allow waiting on module removal if
+	  the module is being used. It's dangerous since it can block the
+	  caller indefinitely.
+	- Improve compatibility with musl libc
+	- Add fallback implementation for compilers without _Static_assert(),
+	  e.g. gcc < 4.6
+	- Minor optimizations to the hash table
+	- Make depmod warn if a module has incorrect devname specification
+	- Use cleanup attribute
+
+kmod 15
+=======
+
+- Bug fixes:
+	- kmod static-nodes doesn't fail if modules.devname isn't available
+	- Fix getting boolean parameter from kernel cmdline in case the value
+	  is omitted
+	- Fix some mkdir_p() corner cases (used in testsuite and static-nodes)
+
+- New features:
+	- kmod static-nodes creates parent directories if given a -o option
+	- kmod binary statically links to libkmod - if distro is only interested
+	  in the kmod tool (for example in an initrd) it can refrain from
+	  installing the library
+	- Add shell completion for kmod tool
+
+kmod 14
+=======
+
+- Bug fixes:
+	- Fix some format strings
+	- Protect against NULL being passed around to index
+	- Avoid calling syscall() with -1 when finit_module() is not available,
+	  since this doesn't always work
+	- Fix not being able to remove alias due to checking the module's
+	  refcount
+	- Minor fixes and refactors
+
+- New features:
+	- Improve libkmod documentation, particularly on how flags are dealt
+	  with.
+	- Remove ability to build a static libkmod
+	- Add static-nodes command to kmod that parses modules.devname
+	  generating output in useful formats
+
+kmod 13
+=======
+
+- Bug fixes:
+	- Add the long option --symbol-prefix option to depmod (it was absent)
+	  and fix its behavior
+	- Don't abort if there's a bogus line in configuration file like "alias
+	  psmouse off". Some distros are carrying this since the days of
+	  modutils
+
+- New features:
+	- Add support for finit_module(2). If the module is load straight from
+	  the disk and without compression we use finit_module() syscall when
+	  available, falling back to init_module() otherwise
+	- kmod_module_get_info() also returns the signature if the module is
+	  signed and modinfo uses it
+	- Use secure_getenv if available
+	- rmmod understands builtin modules, just like modprobe does
+	- Improve compatibility with musl-libc
+	- Test cases exit with success when receiving a signal if they are
+	  xfail tests
+
+kmod 12
+=======
+
+- Bug fixes:
+	- Fix removing vermagic from module when told to force load a module
+	- Fix removing __versions section when told to force load a module: we
+	  need to mangle the section header, not the section.
+	- modinfo no longer fails while loading a module from file when path
+	  contains ".ko" substring
+
+kmod 11
+=======
+
+- Improvements to testsuite:
+	- Fix testsuite defining symbols twice on 32 bit systems
+	- Allow to check generated files against correct ones
+
+- New features:
+	- libkmod now keeps a file opened after the first call to
+	  kmod_module_get_{info,versions,symbols,dependency_symbols}. This
+	  reduces significantly the amount of time depmod tool takes to
+	  execute. Particularly if compressed modules are used.
+	- Remove --with-rootprefix from build system. It was not a great idea
+	  after all and should not be use since it causes more harm then
+	  benefits.
+	- Hide --wait option on rmmod. This feature is being targeted for
+	  removal from kernel. rmmod still accepts this option, but it's hidden
+	  now: man page and usage() say nothing about it and if it's used,
+	  user will get a 10s sleep. This way we can check and help if anyone
+	  is using this feature.
+	- Refactor message logging on all tools, giving proper prefix, routing
+	  everything to syslog when asked for, etc.
+
+- Bug fixes:
+	- Fix parsing of modules.order when using compressed modules
+	- Usage messages go to stdout instead of stderr
+	- Fix memory leak in hash implementation
+
+kmod 10
+=======
+
+- New features:
+	- Read coresize from /sys if supported
+
+	- Add flag to kmod_module_probe_insert() to apply blacklisting during
+	  probe only if mod is an alias. Now modprobe uses this flag by default.
+	  This is needed to fix a change in behavior regarding module-init-tools
+	  and ultimately makes us loading a blacklisted module.
+
+- Better formatting in man pages
+
+- Add option to disable building man pages at build time
+
+- Fixes in the testsuite and refactoring of LDPRELOAD'ed libraries
+
+- Re-licensing testsuite as LGPL
+
 kmod 9
 ======
 
-- Improvements to testsuite:
+- Improvements to the testsuite:
 	- Check for correct handling of softdep loops
 	- Check for correct handling of install command loops
 
 - Bug fixes:
 	- Fix build with compilers that don't support --gc-sections
-	- Handle errors when dealing with gzipp'ed modules
-	- depmod now handles errors while writing indexes, so it doesn't end up
-	  with corrupted index without telling the user
+	- Handle errors when dealing with gzipped modules
+	- depmod now handles errors while writing indices, so it doesn't end up
+	  with a corrupted index without telling the user
 
 kmod 8
 ======
 
 - No new features, small bug fixes only.
-	- Fix bug in "modprobe -c" output: be compatible with
+	- Fix a bug in "modprobe -c" output: be compatible with
 	  module-init-tools
 
-	- Give an useful error message when init_module fails due to bad
-	  parameter or unknown symbol
+	- Give a useful error message when init_module fails due to bad
+	  parameter or unknown symbols
 
 	- Fix doc generation
 
@@ -32,8 +727,8 @@ kmod 7
 	2. /run/modprobe.d
 	3. /lib/modprobe.d
 
-- Fix setting CFLAGS/LDFLAGS in build system. This prevents us from not
-  allowing user to set his preference
+- Fix setting CFLAGS/LDFLAGS in build system. This prevented us from not
+  allowing the user to set his preferences.
 
 - Bug fixes:
 	- Return same error codes of module-init-tools when removing modules
@@ -42,7 +737,6 @@ kmod 7
 	  same of the running kernel
 	- 'modprobe -r' always look at all command line arguments
 	- Fix '-q' usage in modprobe
-	-
 
 kmod 6
 ======